Re: Oracle 8.1.7 on Redhat 7.1: how to listen on specific address ?

"Olivier" <clergetolivier_at_wanadoo.fr> writes:

> hello,
>
>
> try to install a firewall in your kernel and filter the packet you want to
> block. So block the supects ports and verify if oracle is always runnig for
> your lan.
>
> @+OlivierC
>

Hmmm ... actually I got ipchains running already. Problem is that occasionally one has (or at least I have) to shut down the firewall. Since I'm too lazy for 'init 1' I like to have all private services bound to localhost only. Thanks anyway.

>
> "Gunther Hermann" <ghermann_at_dclient103-30.hispeed.ch> a écrit dans le
> message news: m3itie78n1.fsf_at_dclient103-30.hispeed.ch...
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I just downloaded and installed Oracle 8.1.7 on Redhat 7.1.
> > Things worked fine so far, I got the database up and running.
> >
> > What I'd finally like to to is to bind all listening services
> > to localhost addresses only.
> >
> > Trying this, two questions/problems came up when calling netstat -l
> > with output
> > tcp 0 0 *:32771 *:* LISTEN
> > tcp 0 0 *:32772 *:* LISTEN
> > tcp 0 0 *:1521 *:* LISTEN
> > and lsof with output
> > oracle 783 oracle 9u IPv4 1525 TCP *:32771 (LISTEN)
> > oracle 785 oracle 9u IPv4 1530 TCP *:32772 (LISTEN)
> >
> > (i) what exactly are the services running on ports 32771/32772 and how
 can
> > I configure them to listen on 127.0.0.1 only ?
> > (ii) why does the tns listener (port 1521 if I'm not wrong) listen on
 _all_
> > addresses although my 'listener.ora' looks like
> > LISTENER =
> > (DESCRIPTION_LIST =
> > (DESCRIPTION =
> > (ADDRESS_LIST =
> > (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = localhost)(PORT = 1521))
> > )
> > (ADDRESS_LIST =
> > (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC))
> > )
> > )
> > )
> > ??
> >
> > Thanks a lot
> > Gunther
Received on Sun Jun 03 2001 - 12:26:30 CDT