Re: Possible Security Breach

rc wrote:

>>
>>Evidently you have a listener running on port 1521. As Howard explains
>>each instance registers itself with the listener every minute. I guess
>>you would do better to spend your time on something else, eg. reading
>>in the net 8 manual what the Plsextproc does, rather than misusing
>>this group as a replacement for reading manuals.

Been here before. If it's that urgent, and this is the only forum you can turn to, you are in deep, deep doo-doo. Urgent means money: pay for support, and they will respond in a time proportional to the amount of cash you spend. Post here, and you are relying on someone finding your topic of moderate interest, and your posting style inoffensive. A boundary you are about to cross, incidentally.

> I probably would do what you
> ask ,RTFM, but if the system has been compromised than I need some
> help now to understand what is happening,

Maybe you should just calm down a little. *You* posted about a security breach. Here you talk about a compromised system. As I pointed out to you originally, neither is the case in all probability. It's the way Oracle works, so just relax a little.

If you feel an Oracle database is trying to connect to IP addresses outside your domain, and for no apparent reason, it's a configuration issue, not a compromised database.

> again someone who claims to
> be a "Senior Oracle DBA" would understand that !!!

If you want help, then don't push your luck, OK?

> Further more the whole point of such groups is to share information
> only if you want to ?

And sharing information implies urgency???? I don't think so. You want urgent, timely responses, go elsewhere. You want to mull over issues to learn something to assist you longterm, then fair enough. Fishermen we may be, firefighters we ain't.

HJR Received on Fri Aug 27 2004 - 06:24:18 CDT