[Gllug] Net outages caused by worm possibly

[John Winters]

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 11:19, Walid Shaari wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> What about replication when done across different sites?
> 
> Could you please elaborate, or advise alternatives!

At the very least I would expect such ports to be opened at the firewall
only to nominated outside addresses.  Even better would be to set up a
VPN and do the database access across that.

John

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