I'd like to have a checklist upon what to do, what to investigate, when an external connection is refused.
if i connect by : psql -h localhost -p 5432 -U yt mydb it works as usual however even locally but using the LAN address : psql -h 192.168.0.20 -p 5432 -U yt mydb i got a : psql: could not connect to server: Connexion refusée Is the server running on host "192.168.0.20" and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432? obviously I've verified by ping the computer is reachable. something i suspect : $ lal /var/run/postgresql total 12 drwxrwsr-x 2 postgres postgres 140 nov. 19 09:53 . drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 900 nov. 19 09:45 .. -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 6 nov. 19 09:53 9.1-main.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 4 nov. 19 07:10 pgbouncer.pid srwxrwxrwx 1 postgres postgres 0 nov. 19 09:53 .s.PGSQL.5432 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 71 nov. 19 09:53 .s.PGSQL.5432.lock srwxrwxrwx 1 postgres postgres 0 nov. 19 07:10 .s.PGSQL.6432 this the locked file : .s.PGSQL.5432.lock is that normal or not ? something to say, i had a brutal shutdown due to over heating of my laptop recently. on the pg_hba.conf i do have a bunch of IPV6 addresses allowing connection then i don't think the prob comes from here, but nevermind... in such a situation what is your checklist in order to find what I've missed ? -- Yvon