On 19 Aug 2014 08:35, "Mathieu Bridon" <bochecha@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 21:09 +0100, Richard Turner wrote:
> > I'm running PostgreSQL on my box, and need to have some VMs I run
> > connect to it. I'd not propose that port 5432 was open by default
> > though.
>
> As Elad said in the email you replied to:
>
> >> Right now in the firewalld policy in Fedora Workstation any
> >> non-root port is unblocked by default.
>
> I haven't checked yet, but to me that means that port 5432 is open by
> default.

Duh! Yes, of course; I wasn't thinking.

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.

R