On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 04:53:32PM +0100, Mark Rotteveel wrote: > > Initial security by disallowing external connections. If and when you want > your server available to the outside world you can configure it so, and it > will be a conscious choice instead of a (potentially) insecure default.
Well, not really, at least not on Linux. The fact that you bind your socket to 127.0.0.1 doesn't actually completely prevent clients from other hosts from connecting to it. Michal Kubeček ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel