[Gllug] Net outages caused by worm possibly

[Tethys]

Walid Shaari writes:

>Surely there are legitimate cases where databases need to be accessed
>remotely, I am involved in an OSS project that hosts its database in a
>different location. in that project the admin had no choice but to take
>whatever is given to him.

Not that I can think of. You'd typically have some kind of front end
that the wolrd in general interacts with, and that front end would
query the database and return the results.

>What about replication when done across different sites?

Use a VPN (either via IPsec, or just an ssh tunnel).

Tet

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