IP address for Wider Use?

[Doug Easterbrook]

everywhere in the world is.  0.0.0.0/0


try a CIDR calculator like https://account.arin.net/public/cidrCalculator <https://account.arin.net/public/cidrCalculator>

put in 0.0.0.0 as the start and 255.255.255.255 as the end and click calculate




Doug Easterbrook
Arts Management Systems Ltd.
mailto:doug at artsman.com
http://www.artsman.com
Phone (403) 650-1978

> On January 23, 2022, at 2:43 PM, Das Goravani <goravanis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello $all,
> 
> I have setup a Postgres database and am connected into it.
> 
> It currently is accepting connections from 192.168 only.
> 
> I take it that 192.168 refers only to one’s local network.
> 
> How do you configure pg_hba.config to allow connections from anywhere?
> 
> Because I want this database to be a part of an online demo I make of Omnis’s capabilities.
> 
> To show what I can do. 
> 
> I want people from anywhere to be able to access it and use it. 
> 
> And I wonder, what is the IP address of my server in that regard.. I currently am logging into 192.168.1.3, which I think is a local only type address. 
> 
> So I’m confused about "the wider address" of my server and how to allow connections from a wider audience.
> 
> That’s it. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Das Goravani
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