Re: defunct postmasters - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Lamar Owen
Subject Re: defunct postmasters
Date
Msg-id 0105111232420D.00912@lowen.wgcr.org
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In response to defunct postmasters  (Philip Crotwell <crotwell@seis.sc.edu>)
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On Friday 11 May 2001 10:26, Philip Crotwell wrote:
> PS I don't know why this happened, but the only theory I have is that I am
> running with -i to allow jdbc connections and I had port scanned the
> machine with nmap shortly before noticing that I could no longer connect.
> Maybe just coincidence as I don't know if I could connect before
> portscanning or not, but I have seen other daemons crash after being
> port scanned.

Can somebody say 'denial-of-service?'  I knew you could.

I'm going to test this one here and see what happens.  A port scan should not
do this to postmaster.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11
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