Remotely Connect to a RESTRICT Opened Database

Lately, I have this sub-conscience mantra which basically says: don’t believe everything Oracle Official Docs say but try and prove those facts! For example, one thing to try is starting an instance in restricted mode and prove after that what Oracle says in the Administration Guide 11g/Starting Up a Database chapter:

when the instance is in restricted mode, a database administrator cannot access the instance remotely through an Oracle Net listener, but can only access the instance locally from the machine that the instance is running on.

Lets try! On the server:

SQL> startup restrict
ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area  835104768 bytes
Fixed Size                  2149000 bytes
Variable Size             595592568 bytes
Database Buffers          230686720 bytes
Redo Buffers                6676480 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.

On the client, using an admin user:

Enter user-name: admin@tbag
Enter password:
ERROR:
ORA-12526: TNS:listener: all appropriate instances are in restricted mode

What they forget to say here is the fact that this behavior is obtained just with dynamic listener registration. If I’m going to explicitly specify the SID_LIST within my listener.ora file then I can connect remotely without problems.