Re: Unwanted SQL Developer inverse connection storming

  • From: Jeff Smith <jeff.d.smith@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:08:49 -0400

So, another clarification - we're doing doing a PING either. We're doing 
a TNSPING.
And it is actually being used - not in a super secret way - if you mouse 
over the connection label in the tree you'll see a 'Last Ping: XXX ms' 
if the listener was able to respond, e.g. db is up.


So some help here - what is 'bad' about this behavior?

Thanks everyone,
Jeff Smith
Product Manager, Oracle SQL Developer


On 4/3/2013 1:02 PM, Andrew Kerber wrote:
> And it is still a terrible idea.  For one thing, most security 
> standards require that ping response to be turned off for internal 
> servers anyway, so no response means nothing If it is doing tnsping, 
> you are also talking to the listenrs.
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> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Jeff Smith <jeff.d.smith@xxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:jeff.d.smith@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Sorry, horrible wording.
>
>     To clarify, we're only pinging the server defined in the connection.
>     We're not actually connecting or measuring connection times.
>
>     Jeff
>
>     On 4/3/2013 12:10 PM, Jeff Smith wrote:
>     > y thought is that we should collect that on CONNECT time, not
>     for all
>     > connections defined in the tool at startup time, as you have
>     noticed.
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