Re: Unable To Establish Connections

From: Sam Stearns <samtstearns(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Unable To Establish Connections
Date: 2011-05-17 22:52:02
Message-ID: 201105192148.p4JLmAXn019562@mxv04.wellsfargo.com
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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 <samtstearns(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 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 connections at the time.  Bounced
> postgres successfully but the above error message was still being
> logged.  About 20 minutes later the error message stopped and
> connections started to re-establish.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Sam
>

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