Tom Lane wrote:
Check to see if ident traffic is being filtered by kernel-level packet filtering. IIRC, RHL ships with mighty tight packet filtering, even on the loopback connection (which is a tad silly, but...). One easy way to investigate this is to see if you can telnet to the ident daemon:
Actually, it seems that Red Hat doesn't filter the loopback adapter. (In fact, it seems that connections to local interfaces don't get filtered either, but remote connections to the same interfaces do get filtered.) I have tracked the problem down to the following line in /etc/identd.conf: result:encrypt = yes Changing this to 'no' makes things work as expected, so PostgreSQL obviously couldn't understand the encrypted response. Anyone have any idea if this is a problem with PostgreSQL, a problem with the ident daemon, or just "broken as designed"? Thanks! -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================== ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org