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

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

"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 - 05:52:08 CDT