[Gllug] Net outages caused by worm possibly

[Martin A. Brooks]

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 11:17, John Winters wrote:
> 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.

In the past, I've doen this by simply whacking a second network card in
the webserver and sitting the SQL server on a private network. Like
this:


SQL             WEBSERVER
 |	         |     |
 |___[ SWITCH ]__|     |____[ SWITCH ]____[ ROUTER / OUTSIDE WORLD ]


-- 
Martin A. Brooks <martin at clues.ltd.uk>
Clues Ltd


-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug