On 10/25/14 2:52 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > And a bit of experimentation later: it seems that on Yosemite (and > probably earlier OS X versions), "localhost" maps to all three of these > addresses: > 127.0.0.1 > ::1 > fe80:1::1 > Binding to 127.0.0.1 does not trigger the firewall popup. Binding > to ::1 doesn't, either. But binding to fe80:1::1 does. So the > easy fix, for a default installation, is to keep the postmaster > from binding to that last address. > > I'm not sufficiently up on my IPv6 to be sure exactly what that third > address does. Perhaps it is a bug in the firewall logic that it > considers that address external?
I think that's exactly it. I have filed a bug with Apple about it. For the time begin, I think it's a reasonable workaround to comment out the line in /etc/hosts. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
