From: Jaime Casanova <systemguards@gmail.com>
To: Murray Cumming <murrayc@murrayc.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Detecting postgres servers
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:49:47 -0500
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On 1/10/06, Murray Cumming <murrayc@murrayc.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@murrayc.com
> www.murrayc.com
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>
>
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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