<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">On 19 Aug 2014 08:35, "Mathieu Bridon" <<a href="mailto:bochecha@fedoraproject.org" target="_blank">bochecha@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 21:09 +0100, Richard Turner wrote:<br>
> > I'm running PostgreSQL on my box, and need to have some VMs I run<br>
> > connect to it. I'd not propose that port 5432 was open by default<br>
> > though.<br>
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> As Elad said in the email you replied to:<br>
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> >> Right now in the firewalld policy in Fedora Workstation any<br>
> >> non-root port is unblocked by default.<br>
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> I haven't checked yet, but to me that means that port 5432 is open by<br>
> default.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Duh! Yes, of course; I wasn't thinking.</p><p dir="ltr">The reason that example was in my mind is that very day I ran into the problem of a VM being unable to connect via port 5432. Admittedly I'd had to start postgresql manually (using systemctl) owing to a stale lock file, might that have made a difference? The port definitely wasn't open.<br>
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<p dir="ltr">R</p>
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