Thanks for the help - it was a dns resolving issue
after all as you described.
Jonathan
--- Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> wrote:
> Jonathan Schreiter <jonathanschreiter@yahoo.com>
> writes:
>
> > The only way I can connect to the database via
> JDBC
> > seems to be by IP address (both locally and on
> another
> > system allowed by the pg_hba.conf file).
> >
> >
>
jdbc:postgresql://theipaddressofdatabaseserver/mydatabase
> >
> > I'd like to be able to connect to the database
> this
> > way using a DNS name / computer host name. The
> > specific error I recieve is on the lines of no
> route
> > to host.
>
> This implies that the IP address in DNS or
> /etc/hosts is different
> from the IP address you're using in the URL. It's
> almost certainly
> not a Postgres misconfiguration. What happens when
> you do
>
> telnet server.host.name 5432
>
> on the JDBC client machine?
>
> -Doug
>
