Thanks again for your help. I think that the picture is getting clearer
in my mind.
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From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Paul Thomas
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 10:37 AM
To: pgsql-general @ postgresql . org
Subject: Re: FW: [GENERAL] Allowing user to connect to a database?
On 19/06/2003 14:04 Carlos Oliva wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> This worked very well. Perhaps, you can help me with another
> question: If I write an aaa bbb ccc of 200.200.200.0, do all clientes
> with IP addresses between 0.0.0.0 and 200.200.200.0 can connect?
>
No. The client ips would have to be in the range 200.200.200.1 to
200.200.200.254. The rules for sub-nets and sub-net masks can be a bit
confusing and I've yet to find a tutorial on-line which is easy to
follow.
It might help you to think of 200.200.200.0 as 200.200.200.*.
HTH
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