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 connec
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 wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Environment:
>
> Postgres 8.2.3
> Solaris 10
>
> We were unable to make a remote postgres connection for ~2 hours this
> afternoon.
First google hit said this:
"It seems (not sure) to occur when user retypes password fast.
Maybe in this case ODBC driver gets old connection somehow from driver
manager."
also
"It looks to me like the ODBC driver is failing to follow the protocol.
It shouldn't respond with an 'X' if it doesn't h
Thanks, Tim.
I've turned up logging some more.
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Tim wrote:
> First google hit said this:
>
> "It seems (not sure) to occur when user retypes password fast.
> Maybe in this case ODBC driver gets old connection somehow from driver
> manager."
>
> also
> "It looks to
Future reference:
Problem was caused by primary DNS resolver suffering from degraded
performance. Server experienced a software issue with BIND, the
software that performs DNS resolution.
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Sam Stearns wrote:
> Thanks, Tim.
>
> I've turned up logging some more.
>
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 wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Environment:
>
> Postgres 8.2.3
> Solaris 10
>
> We were unable to make a remote postgres connection for ~2 hours this
> afternoon.
