Re: pg_hba.conf change in 7.4 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Seum-Lim Gan
Subject Re: pg_hba.conf change in 7.4
Date
Msg-id p05100304bbe2abcb91c2@[135.185.171.70]
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In response to Re: pg_hba.conf change in 7.4  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pg_hba.conf change in 7.4  (Seum-Lim Gan <slgan@lucent.com>)
List pgsql-general
Hi Bruce,

We are using Sun Solaris 9 on Sparc. uname -a :

SunOS test01 5.9 Generic_112233-04 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80

Gan

At 12:29 pm -0500 2003/11/20, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>I think what happens is that when we listen on IPv4 and IPv6, that all
>connections get IPv6.  What OS are you using?
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Seum-Lim Gan wrote:
>>  Hi Bruce,
>>
>>  Thanks for the info.
>>  I captured the netstat output below.
>>
>>  Looks like there is a bunch of IPv4 being used.
>>
>>  Any idea how this can be resolved ?
>>
>>  Thanks.
>>
>>  Gan
>>
>>  UDP: IPv6
>>      Local Address                     Remote Address
>>  State      If
>>  --------------------------------- ---------------------------------
>>  ---------- -----
>>  localhost.35847                   localhost.35847
>>Connected
>>
>>  TCP: IPv4
>>      Local Address        Remote Address    Swind Send-Q Rwind Recv-Q  State
>>  -------------------- -------------------- ----- ------ ----- ------ -------
>>  localhost.32906      localhost.14500      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14500      localhost.32906      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.32908      localhost.14500      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14500      localhost.32908      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.32910      localhost.14500      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14500      localhost.32910      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.32911      localhost.14500      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14500      localhost.32911      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.32913      localhost.14500      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14500      localhost.32913      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.32915      localhost.14500      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14500      localhost.32915      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.32917      localhost.14500      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14500      localhost.32917      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.32919      localhost.14500      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14500      localhost.32919      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.32920      localhost.14500      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14500      localhost.32920      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.32922      localhost.14500      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14500      localhost.32922      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.32923      localhost.14500      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14500      localhost.32923      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.32924      localhost.14500      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14500      localhost.32924      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.32926      localhost.14500      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14500      localhost.32926      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.32927      localhost.14500      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14500      localhost.32927      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.33086      localhost.14500      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14500      localhost.33086      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.33087      localhost.14500      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14500      localhost.33087      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.50882      localhost.14502      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14502      localhost.50882      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.50883      localhost.14500      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>>  localhost.14500      localhost.50883      49152      0 49152
>>0 ESTABLISHED
>  >
>>  At 12:11 pm -0500 2003/11/20, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>  >Seum-Lim Gan wrote:
>>  >>  Hi,
>>  >>
>>  >>  In 7.4, I noticed there is this ::1 and ffff: (x8 of them)
>>  >>  for IPv6.
>>  >>
>>  >>  I looked at the documentation and there is nothing that says
>>  >>  what the ::1 is for.
>>  >
>>  >The ::1 is a IPv6 shorthand for 127.0.0.1 (localhost).
>>  >
>>  >>  Commenting out that line will prevent access to PostgreSQL
>>  >>  from psql unless I put trust for that line.
>>  >>
>>  >>  This is what I had in 7.3.4:
>>  >>  host    all         all         127.0.0.1         255.255.255.255
>>  >  > ident pspmap
>>  >>  local   all         all
>>password
>>  >>  host    all         all         0.0.0.0        0.0.0.0          reject
>>  >>
>>  >>  But in 7.4, it does not work anymore. It seems to want ::1 to
>>be somewhere.
>>  >>  If I change the line with ::1 from trust to ident pspmap, it
>>complains that
>>  >>  the user cannot be found. But it is in the pspmap. Message fromm psql:
>>  >
>>  >Seems you have an OS that makes all connections IPv6, even IPv4 ones.
>>  >That is why we had to have that line in there.  Seems ::1 controls your
>>  >local connections on that platform.  Some platforms have distinct IPv4
>>  >and IPv6 connections, so we have to include both lines in the file.
>>  >
>>  >>  Right now, I have it set to trust to work around.
>>  >>  Any idea what to do about this ?
>>  >>
>>  >>  host    all         all         127.0.0.1         255.255.255.255
>>  >>  ident pspmap
>>  >>  local   all         all
>>password
>>  >>  host    all         all         0.0.0.0        0.0.0.0          reject
>>  >>  # IPv4-style local connections:
>>  >>  #host    all         all         127.0.0.1
>>255.255.255.255   trust
>>  >>  # IPv6-style local connections:
>>  >>  host    all         all         ::1
>>  >>  ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff        trust
>>  >
>>  >Yea, that's about it.  My guess is that nothing is coming in via IPv4 on
>>  >your machine so 127.0.0.1 does nothing.  Perhaps netstat will show the
>  > >IP address family used.

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