From: Sam Stearns <samtstearns@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Unable To Establish Connections
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 08:22:02 +0930
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Anyone have any ideas on this? We're an ISP. I was thinking of the
possibility of a hack attempt.
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Sam Stearns <samtstearns@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Environment:
>
> Postgres 8.2.3
> Solaris 10
>
> We were unable to make a remote postgres connection for ~2 hours this
> afternoon. Receiving the following message in the postgres log every
> 30 seconds:
>
> LOG: expected password response, got message type 88
>
> Connection limit is 300. 17 active connections at the time. Bounced
> postgres successfully but the above error message was still being
> logged. About 20 minutes later the error message stopped and
> connections started to re-establish.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Sam
>
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