St?phane P?trot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the demon slon is running on my slave server, but it can't connect to
> the master server. I got the log error :
> 
> CEST ERROR  slon_connectdb: PQconnectdb("host=master dbname=my_db
> user=postgres port=5432") failed - could not connect to server:
>         Is the server running on host "master" and accepting
>         TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
> 
> It was well working before I change the IP of the slave (no more the
> same network but a remote one). The firewall is OK to receive
> connection on port 5432.
> So what's happened?

Something is up with the conninfo as supplied.  My guess is that the
hostname 'master' isn't pointing the the right server.  Go to the server
that the slons are running on, and  try connecting to the master db via
psql with the same info the slon is using, I bet you'll get the same
message.


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Brad Nicholson  416-673-4106
Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.