On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:06:48PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:This is the case. Can you tell me why this is unsafe? (Nobody is allowed to connect from the outside)
Marc Cuypers wrote:
Found the problem. The firewall blocked communication between taper and dumper.
That's strange, because there is no immediate communication between these two, as far as I know.
Driver is connected with a pipe to each dumper and to taper-reader.
I believe there is a dumper->taper connection, for direct-to-tape dumps. That's how I read docs/PORT.USAGE, anyway -- see the bits on stream_server() and stream_client(). But both of those processes run on the same host, so it's still hard to see how a firewall could get between them.
Unless Amanda's running on the firewall machine itself -- which I'd consider an unsafe idea anyway!
Marc.
