Brendan Jurd wrote:
It doesn't solve the spoofing attack problem, but isn't Gurjeet's idea
a good one in any case?
What makes it good? It solves no problems. It prevents the server from
coming up when it otherwise might still be able to.
If the postmaster can't bind on one of the specified interfaces, then
at the least, haven't you got got a serious configuration error the
sysadmin would want to know about? Having postmaster fail seems like
a sensible response.
I don't think it really matters what it does in the grand scheme of
things, as it's not solving a real problem.
"I can't start with the configuration you've given me, so I won't
start at all" is fairly normal behaviour for a server process, no
None of my servers work this way. If possible, I try to make my servers
auto-recover at a later time while they are still up. It means an
administrator does not need to login to a machine at the data center to
solve the problem. "Self healing" is a term that is used to describe
approaches such as this.
Cheers,
mark
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