Hi,

I'm not sure that this is not a configuration or networking issue (so apologies if it is), but we seem to be getting rare (a few times/day) failures with ident authentication because several clients attempt to do it simultaneously over a high-latency connection (capitalized = edited IPs/username etc.):

[DB CLIENTADDR(51985) 3173 2011-06-17 10:49:56 CEST] LOG: could not bind to local address "SERVERADDR": Address already in use [DB CLIENTADDR(51985) 3173 2011-06-17 10:49:56 CEST] FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "USER" [DB CLIENTADDR(51986) 3183 2011-06-17 10:49:56 CEST] FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "CLIENTADDR", user "USER", database "DB", SSL off

on the client side, we had 2 connection attempts, of which 1 failed (apparently):

Jun 17 10:49:53 xxx oidentd[12377]: Connection from SERVER (SERVERADDR):0
Jun 17 10:49:53 xxx oidentd[12377]: [SERVER] Successful lookup: 51980 , 5432 : crm (crm)

[Fri Jun 17 10:49:53 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] [Fri Jun 17 10:49:53 2011] kv_tpl.pl: DBI connect('dbname=DB;host=SERVER','USER',...) failed: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "USER", referer: URL [Fri Jun 17 10:49:53 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] [Fri Jun 17 10:49:53 2011] kv_tpl.pl: FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "CLIENTADDR", user "USER", database "DB", SSL off at /var/www/crm/kv_tpl.pl line 100, referer: URL

Is this a possible race condition in src/backend/libpq/auth.c ?

[note: the client/server clocks are 3 seconds apart at this point, I haven't investigated whether that causes issues here]

---
    /*
     * Bind to the address which the client originally contacted, otherwise
* the ident server won't be able to match up the right connection. This
     * is necessary if the PostgreSQL server is running on an IP alias.
     */
    rc = bind(sock_fd, la->ai_addr, la->ai_addrlen);
    if (rc != 0)
    {
        ereport(LOG,
                (errcode_for_socket_access(),
                 errmsg("could not bind to local address \"%s\": %m",
                        local_addr_s)));
        ident_return = false;
        goto ident_inet_done;
    }
---

Regards,
 Marinos

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