Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C225D1337B82 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:33:54 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29073-06 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:33:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 109C0133655C for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:33:43 -0400 (AST) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id p2AKXac00524; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:33:36 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <201103102033.p2AKXac00524@momjian.us> Subject: Re: Listen on IPv6 only In-Reply-To: To: Dyonisius Visser Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:33:36 -0500 (EST) CC: gilberto.castillo@etecsa.cu, pgsql-admin@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201103/137 X-Sequence-Number: 37009 Dyonisius Visser wrote: > On 10 March 2011 21:03, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > OK, let's skip documenting this then. ?They can already do this via > > pg_hba.conf. > > Restricting access via pg_hba.conf is something else than listening > (or not) on sockets... > > FYI, the listen_addresses is basically the same as sshd's ListenAddress. Yes, listen_addresses prevents anyone from even binding to the address. -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +