Re: Possible Security Breach

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:24:18 +1000, "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote:

>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.
>>
>> Now, if it wasn't such an urgent issue
>
>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.

We also have paid for support from a UK "Oracle Certified Partner" and what info they have given us is next to nothing !

The info I got here is more than what they can tell me
>
>> 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.

Fair enough
>
>HJR
Received on Fri Aug 27 2004 - 08:30:04 CDT