Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([98.129.198.125]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T4uZ2-0005qz-KN for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:08:44 +0000 Received: from gwmta.wicourts.gov ([165.219.244.99] helo=gw.wicourts.gov) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T4uZ1-0001vw-Co for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:08:44 +0000 Received: from Courts-MTA by gw.wicourts.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:08:41 -0500 Message-Id: <503744920200002500049ADE@gw.wicourts.gov> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 8.0.2 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:08:34 -0500 From: "Kevin Grittner" To: "CS DBA" , Subject: Re: Canot access PostgreSQL via psql -h (Vmware Fusion) References: <64CA6636-C7A2-4305-8A06-A133DEEFEAE7@consistentstate.com> In-Reply-To: <64CA6636-C7A2-4305-8A06-A133DEEFEAE7@consistentstate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Pg-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Archive-Number: 201208/105 X-Sequence-Number: 39926 CS DBA wrote: > I've fired up 2 CentOS 6.2 VM's via vmware fusion 5 (on a mac). > psql -h 192.168.91.145 > psql: could not connect to server: No route to host That problem has nothing to do with PostgreSQL; you might have better luck on a list related to the other technologies. FWIW, on Linux I would start with `netstat -plnt` to see if the process was listening on the expected port and host address. -Kevin