Hi Kevin,
> Hi has anyone had any joy allowing oracle plus/sql through a firewall?
We have that configured here with a double fire wall, first firewall lets
packets through from the big bad internet to port 80 on the web server,
second firewall lets packets through only from the web server to port 1521
on the DB server hosted on a private network. It works just fine. In this
way there is no access to the database directly from the internet, it
can only be accessed by applications on the web server which itself can
only be accessed via port 80 from outside. About as secure as you can make
it without actually turning it off ;-)
The tcp port defaults to 1521 for Tnslistener but is configurable. You can
check if the firewall is allowing the packets by telneting to the database
server (from the web server) on port 1521 and seeing if you get a response.
HTH
Pete
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