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From: John Scalia <jayknowsunix@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: PgAdmin cannot locate my server
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 21:01:19 -0400
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To: "Wetmore, Matthew (CTR)" <Matthew.Wetmore@express-scripts.com>
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You are correct this problem was from windows and PgAdmin 4v6. At least that=
=E2=80=99s what my company calls it. The database was an AWS RDS version 12.=
4.

The eventual fix was even stranger. As an experiment I ran nslookup against t=
he db. Then I reconfigured PgAdmin to connect using the db=E2=80=99s IP addr=
ess. That all went quite well and I connected with the db. For grins, I reco=
nfigured PgAdmin back to the db=E2=80=99s FQDN, and had it try a reconnectio=
n. Strangely enough it did connect and there were no issues., but the only c=
hange here was the fact that I first connected using the IP adress.

Sent from my iPad

> On Apr 19, 2023, at 6:04 PM, Wetmore, Matthew (CTR) <Matthew.Wetmore@expre=
ss-scripts.com> wrote:
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> =EF=BB=BFI'm assuming this is windows. =20
> I ran into this when PGAdmin is fine with qualified DNS hostname, but the p=
g_pass file couldn't resolve and needed dotted quad.
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> The corporate-world structure of windows networking and permissions is a m=
ystery to me...
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> Just use the dotted quad and move along! lol
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> =46rom cmd:=20
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> nslookup < ple.mydomain.com >
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> pg_pass.conf
> <IP.IP.IP.IP>:<port>:<db>:<User>:<PASSWORD>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Scalia <jayknowsunix@gmail.com>=20
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2023 12:45 PM
> To: Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] PgAdmin cannot locate my server
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> I=E2=80=99ve got something really weird going on. My laptop can easily fin=
d my PLE production (production like environment) using a normal nslookup, b=
ut PgAdmin emits an error saying could not translate host name =E2=80=9Cple.=
mydomain.com=E2=80=9D host to address: Unknown host
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> So where is PgAdmin looking regarding DNS entries? I would think that if t=
he laptop can find it, that any app running on it should be able to do so.
> =E2=80=94
> Jay
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> Sent from my iPad6
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