Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 20:30:27 +0200 (CEST)
From: Erik Wienhold <ewie@ewie.name>
To: John Scalia <jayknowsunix@gmail.com>,
	Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>
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Subject: Re: PgAdmin cannot locate my server
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> On 17/04/2023 19:44 CEST John Scalia <jayknowsunix@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I=E2=80=99ve got something really weird going on. My laptop can easily fi=
nd my PLE
> production (production like environment) using a normal nslookup, but PgA=
dmin
> emits an error saying could not translate host name =E2=80=9Cple.mydomain=
.com=E2=80=9D host to
> address: Unknown host
>
> So where is PgAdmin looking regarding DNS entries?

I can't find message "Unknown host" in the pgAdmin source.  I'd have to che=
ck
but I assume pgAdmin delegates all connection management to psycopg.

> I would think that if the laptop can find it, that any app running on it
> should be able to do so.

How do you run pgAdmin?  From the top of my head there's the desktop versio=
n,
server version, and Docker container version.  In case of the server versio=
n
it's plausible that the server uses different DNS settings than your laptop=
.
Docker containers should inherit the DNS settings of the host but that can =
be
changed as well.

--
Erik