Re: defunct postmasters

From: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
To: Philip Crotwell <crotwell(at)seis(dot)sc(dot)edu>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: defunct postmasters
Date: 2001-05-11 16:32:42
Message-ID: 0105111232420D.00912@lowen.wgcr.org
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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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