On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Mike Miller wrote:
> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:14:26 -0500
> From: Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re:how to secure backend server ?
>
> On Tuesday, January 02, 2001, Gunther Birznieks wrote the following
> about "how to secure backend server ?"
>
> GB> I am not sure, but I suspect it may be possible to distinctly
> GB> bind to 127.0.0.1 and thus disallow any external IP address
> GB> listening for extra measure. The default for apache is to bind to
> GB> every IP on the system promiscuously which you don't want on a BE
> GB> server.
>
> You can explicitly bind an apache server to localhost.
>
This works only if frontend and backend are on the same physical server.
But it will not works even in this situation if you have several
proxies running while you want backend accepts requests only from
one specific proxy.
regards,
Oleg
> Best Regards,
>
> Mike Miller
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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