[wplug] postgresql and tcpip

[Matthew Danish]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:11:52AM -0400, John Harrold wrote:
> this isnt really linux specific. i have a server which is running
> postgresql with the tcpip option turned on. now the database is only being
> accessed through the localhost interface. is there any way to tell
> postgresql to listen only to the lo interface and to ignore requests on the
> external (eth0 in this case) interface. i know that i can limit connections
> in the pg_hba.conf file, which i have. but nmap still shows the machine as
> running postgresql. i could probably drop requests with iptables, but i was
> thinking of a more direct method.

Why not disable the TCP/IP option?

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