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§ ita § - Apr 01, 2007 5:32:21 pm PDT #1110 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hmm. Could be that. My memory is quite aged.

The dd-wrt is up and running, and I have both static DHCP (feels like an oxymoron) and DNSMasq running. For some reason my TiVo doesn't resolve for the XP box, but does for the OSX one.

Now I'm stuck trying to get PHP on the OS X box to talk to PostgreSQL on the XP. Despite having changed the "listen_addresses" string in the Postgres configuration file, I get nada. Not sure where the error lies. Back to some drawing board or another.


-t - Apr 01, 2007 5:55:14 pm PDT #1111 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The toad doesn't ring any bells for me. I think I remember seeing a cover and thinking "Oh, snap" (well, no, I didn't think that phrase nearly as easily then as I do now, but that's the gist), but I can neither remember it nor find it browsing.


§ ita § - Apr 01, 2007 5:57:41 pm PDT #1112 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

-t is me.

Well, depending on whether her authentication from OS X PHP to NT PGSQL works. She's at least partly me.

I've changed an hba_conf parameter to "trust" which just strikes me as a big stinky security loophole, but if I don't trust meself, who can I trust?


amych - Apr 01, 2007 5:58:27 pm PDT #1113 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I remember the title Windows Annoyances as an "oh, snap" moment when I first saw it, but the toad doesn't mean much to me one way or the other.


Jon B. - Apr 01, 2007 6:00:36 pm PDT #1114 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Has everyone heard about Google's new free in-home wireless broadband service? [link]


-h - Apr 01, 2007 6:22:57 pm PDT #1115 of 25496
-t's DH

Howdy - -t and I decided to stop making her proxy for me

and I have both static DHCP (feels like an oxymoron)

You can call it DHCP with lease reservations if it is less dissonant for you.

For some reason my TiVo doesn't resolve for the XP box, but does for the OSX one

Sometimes windows doesn't append the domain name to host names when looking up names. You can force it to append the domain name by going to the control panel for your NIC, going to TCP/IP properties, going to Advanced, clicking the sDNS tab, and adding your domain name to the search suffixes. Or you could assign that NIC you domain name, and choose the "append primary and connection specific DNS suffixes".

Windows DNS resolver is an odd duck, especially if you are using netbios (which you do not need, btw, unless you have windows machines using win95/98). By default, it tries to resolve names with netbios first (if all it has is a name, and no domain name appended), and by the time it is done trying to do that, the application may have timed out before it even has a chance to try DNS. By disabling netbios, it'll go straight to DNS, and hopefully append the domain name.

WRT the PHP on OSX talking to PostgreSQL on XP, make sure XP's firewall isn't blocking the PostgreSQL listener port. You may need to make an exception for PostGresQL to allow access (it uses tcp port 5432 by default, iirc). That could be it.

OK - just wanted to offer some pennies. You can ping me in email if you want to bounce something off of me.


§ ita § - Apr 01, 2007 6:39:48 pm PDT #1116 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have the XP firewall off. I'm connecting now--I couldn't get the password (I had the hba file set first to 'MD5' and then to 'password') to authenticate--looks like 'trust' is bypassing authentication entirely. Finding the postgres log file helped a bit--it was a relief when the connection happened and I was down to the relatively simple password issue.

Sometimes windows doesn't append the domain name to host names when looking up names.

I'm not using a domain name, not on purpose. But I noticed that OS X is appending .socal.rr.com to both hostnames. Win XP has decided to resolve the OS X box, and not the TiVo one. Because it hates me. Went to that tab you mention and entered socal.rr.com, and now it adds it and everything resolves quite neatly.

Thanks for your help! I'd have had my eyes crossed with reading to get myself this far.


-h - Apr 01, 2007 8:26:37 pm PDT #1117 of 25496
-t's DH

Thanks for your help! I'd have had my eyes crossed with reading to get myself this far.

You're welcome - I do have an explanation for the behavior you describe, but I read it after writing it and it kinda bores me even. Chalk it up to the side-effects of Microsoft's relentless drive to preserve backwards compatibility with its old name resolution system.

I'm kinda psyched somebody is using dd_wrt. Its a cool project.


§ ita § - Apr 01, 2007 8:46:19 pm PDT #1118 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm kinda psyched somebody is using dd_wrt. Its a cool project.

I'm a networking lightweight--I usually stick well on the top of the OSI layer. But a friend is a big old Cisco-head, so I was bragging about having (finally) gotten dd-wrt working. He got all sulky that the WRT54GC wasn't big enough to run it (he wants a travel router), but when I showed him all the tabs he started considering buying one of the bigger WRT54s to have some of those options around without using the big iron. Which he has to buy anyway, but why fool around with your expensive stuff?


§ ita § - Apr 01, 2007 8:47:01 pm PDT #1119 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

why fool around with your expensive stuff?

Uh...you do that because you can. Not sure why I even said it. But hopefully my point got across.