Quoting Brent Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi > > I have the nrpe on my LAN. My question is. How many of you guys run NRPE > on a public interface. > > Question really is and and for the Lamen, is it safe. Anyone have any > hack attempts etc. >
Hi, We run NRPE on 4 public-facing servers. All unnecessary ports are blocked by a firewall, port 5666 is limited to our Nagios server only, and NRPE is configured (through its config file) to only accept connections from our Nagios server. Never had any issues. Regards, Andy-- Andy Shellam Business Systems Architect Network Mail NetServe Support ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
