Re: Detecting postgres servers

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?
>
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> Murray Cumming
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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...

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regards,
Jaime Casanova
(DBA: DataBase Aniquilator ;)