Hi,
I just know that it can be done. Sybase ASE for example has an interfaces file which stores the IP address and the port on which the server will listen. So you can explicitly specify the loopback, ethernet or any other network device. This is very handy if you use a database in combination with a Web Application (JSP, PHP) and you want the database only to listen on local requests. This certainly is no replacement for a firewall, but it gives an extra bit of security.It would still be nice to have SAPDB vserver/serv.exe bind on certain
interfaces only instead of 0.0.0.0, because you can't always access local ip
security settings (i.e. support not compiled into the kernel or not
accessible on a linux webserver box). Furthermore you could use the free
port on the interfaces you don't bind to for other purposes.
but another thing is, where to store the config. any ideas?
Arne
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