diff -ur postgresql-jdbc-8.0-312.src.orig/org/postgresql/core/PGStream.java postgresql-jdbc-8.0-312.src/org/postgresql/core/PGStream.java
--- postgresql-jdbc-8.0-312.src.orig/org/postgresql/core/PGStream.java	2005-01-11 09:25:43.000000000 +0100
+++ postgresql-jdbc-8.0-312.src/org/postgresql/core/PGStream.java	2005-09-10 19:39:49.000000000 +0200
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 import java.io.EOFException;
 import java.io.Writer;
 import java.net.Socket;
+import java.net.Proxy;
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
 import java.sql.*;
 
 import org.postgresql.util.GT;
@@ -55,7 +57,12 @@
         this.host = host;
         this.port = port;
 
-        changeSocket(new Socket(host, port));
+        Socket socket = null;
+        socket = new  Socket(Proxy.NO_PROXY);
+
+        InetSocketAddress socketAddress = new InetSocketAddress(host, port);
+        socket.connect(socketAddress, 120000);
+        changeSocket(socket);
         setEncoding(Encoding.getJVMEncoding("US-ASCII"));
     }