On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 02:59:10PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > omega kernel: Shorewall:all2all:REJECT:IN= OUT=lo SRC=x.x.x.x > > DST=x.x.x.x LEN=1016 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 > > TTL=64 ID=21629 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=32769 DPT=32769 LEN=996 > > The PostgreSQL stats collector uses UDP over a random loopback port. It > should normally use localhost, though and not a "real" IP. It's a virtual server, that (currently) has no loopback device. Is it possible to tell the stats collector to use a specific port? > To see if that's it, turn of the stats collector > (start_stats_collector=off), restart postgresql (restart needed ,not > enough to just HUP) and see if they go away. Apparently this didn't prevent those UDP packets... I'm not certain about this one, though, since I wasn't the one testing this.
