From: | Jaime Casanova <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Murray Cumming <murrayc(at)murrayc(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Detecting postgres servers |
Date: | 2006-01-10 20:49:47 |
Message-ID: | c2d9e70e0601101249mcadea8fq7dcf6431e2a146d8@mail.gmail.com |
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On 1/10/06, Murray Cumming <murrayc(at)murrayc(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:34 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > Is there any way, without a username and password, to
> > 1. Detect whether a Postgres server is running on a certain host on a
> > certain port.
> > 2. Detect whether a Postgres server is running on a certain host.
> > 3. Detect whether a Postgres server is running somewhere on the local
> > network, via some bonjour/rendezvous/avahi/howl-type thing?
>
> Does anybody have any ideas about this?
>
> Is a patch to add discovery via avahi likely to be accepted?
>
> --
> Murray Cumming
> murrayc(at)murrayc(dot)com
> www.murrayc.com
> www.openismus.com
>
>
imagine you can port scan, and try to connect on every open port
starting with default one for postgres (5432)...
but this sounds like an attack to me...
--
regards,
Jaime Casanova
(DBA: DataBase Aniquilator ;)
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