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I have installed postgres-9.4 database server on a CentOS 6.6 system. I am trying to connect to this server from my laptop (connected to the same network. Laptop's ip is 192.168.1.105. I am running psql -U postgres -h 192.168.1.52). The psql command fails with an error message:
psql -U postgres -h 192.168.1.52
could not connect to server: COnnection refused
Is the server running on host 192.168.1.52 and accepting TCP/IP connection on port 5432?
My configuration:
/var/lib/pgsql/9.4/data/pg_hba.conf
# TYPE DATABASE USER ADDRESS METHOD
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local all all peer
# IPv4 local connections:
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
host all all 192.168.0.0/16 trust
host all all 0.0.0.0/0 trust
# IPv6 local connections:
host all all ::1/128 trust
# Allow replication connections from localhost, by a user with the
# replication privilege.
#local replication postgres peer
#host replication postgres 127.0.0.1/32 ident
#host replication postgres ::1/128 ident
/etc/sysconfig/iptables:
# Firewall configuration written by system-config-firewall
# Manual customization of this file is not recommended.
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
-A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
-A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 5432 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
COMMIT
I have restarted the iptables service.
/var/lib/pgsql/9.4/data/postgresql.conf
listen_addresses = '*'
port = 5432
I restart the server as below:
[root#cinch-database1 9.4]# service postgresql-9.4 restart
Stopping postgresql-9.4 service: [ OK ]
Starting postgresql-9.4 service: [ OK ]
ps aux and grep postgres returns following:
ps auxwww | grep postgres
postgres 11460 0.0 0.0 325096 14860 ? S 01:36 0:00 /usr/pgsql-9.4/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.4/data
postgres 11463 0.0 0.0 180244 1264 ? Ss 01:36 0:00 postgres: logger process
postgres 11465 0.0 0.0 325096 1564 ? Ss 01:36 0:00 postgres: checkpointer process
postgres 11466 0.0 0.0 325096 2544 ? Ss 01:36 0:00 postgres: writer process
postgres 11467 0.0 0.0 325096 1496 ? Ss 01:36 0:00 postgres: wal writer process
postgres 11468 0.0 0.0 325508 2340 ? Ss 01:36 0:00 postgres: autovacuum launcher process
postgres 11469 0.0 0.0 180376 1476 ? Ss 01:36 0:00 postgres: stats collector process
root 11516 0.0 0.0 103252 844 pts/0 S+ 01:41 0:00 grep postgres
When I do a netstat on the server and grep for 5432 I get nothing:
netstat | grep 5432
But netstat -tulnp returns this:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5432 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 13227/postmaster
Output of 'netstat -l|grep postgres'
[root#cinch-database1 pg_log]# netstat -l|grep postgres
tcp 0 0 *:postgres *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:postgres *:* LISTEN
But as mentioned earlier psql from my laptop fails to connect to the server.
What am I missing?

Answer 1

It was a firewall issue. I had to move the following two lines in the iptables file earlier in the sequence:
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 5432 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
New iptables:
# Firewall configuration written by system-config-firewall
# Manual customization of this file is not recommended.
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
-A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 5432 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
-A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
COMMIT
After this I restarted iptables service:
service iptables restart
Now I can connect to postgres from my laptop.

Answer 2

It seems that the firewall blocks your connections, so just try to disable the firewall with:
sudo service iptables stop
and then if is pass, setup it correctly.