Re: enabling tcpip_socket by default

From: Philip Yarra <philip(at)utiba(dot)com>
To: Marko Karppinen <marko(at)karppinen(dot)fi>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: enabling tcpip_socket by default
Date: 2004-05-17 07:40:06
Message-ID: 200405171740.06969.philip@utiba.com
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On Mon, 17 May 2004 05:29 pm, Marko Karppinen wrote:
> If the default will be to listen on all interfaces, not just 127.0.0.1,
> then this IS a security risk. And if that's not the plan, what good does
> this change do? Any "real" use of tcp would still require a
> configuration
> change anyway.

From what I have read today, localhost is the only one planned to be "on" by
default.

Listening on a TCP/IP socket on localhost will allow JDBC connections to work
out of the box (this exact problem tripped me up, and I'm sure this is the
case for other users).

I suspect other cross-platform APIs (PHP for example) need TCP/IP sockets to
connect too.

Regards, Philip.

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