Received: from ns.itd.sterling.com (ns.itd.sterling.com [192.124.9.5]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA95209 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 14:15:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from andy_farrell@itd.sterling.com) Received: ns.itd.sterling.com id AA29626; Thu, 20 May 1999 13:09:20 -0500 Message-Id: <199905201815.OAA11740@itd.sterling.com> Date: 20 May 99 14:21:43 -0500 From: Andy Farrell Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Postgres 6.4.2 connection problem solved To: PostGreSQL Hackers X-Mailer: QuickMail Pro 1.5.4 (Mac) X-Priority: 3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Andy Farrell Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-Ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.org id OAA95211 Reply to: Re: [HACKERS] Postgres 6.4.2 connection problem solved FYI, The machine we tried to run postgres on had the 'localhost' entry in its hosts file spelled incorrectly (i.e., 'localhosts'). After updating the hosts file, postgres ran fine. I would have thought we would have recieved an error other than 'getprotobyname failed'. I would have expected an error more like the error messages you recieve when trying to connect to postgres from a remote client without adding the client's IP in the pg_hba.conf file. In any case, the problem has been solved, now I can go play golf.... Thanks to those who replied-