Subject Re: [Firebird-general] Accepting only local connections?
Author Martijn Tonies
Hello Andrea,

> I was wondering how I can make firebird server(no matter which one)
> accept only local tcp connection. Mind you, I don't want to use Firebird
> embedded(I could have a few concurrent connections...) but I want to
> avoid that other people from other computers on the internet reach my
> database server.
>
> Is there any config tweaking I can do to obtain this?

You would get more support when asking questions at
firebird-support@yahoogroups.com instead of this one :-)

Anyway, Firebird does not have something built in for that.

You can use your Firewall for that, Firebird uses port 3050
by default.

Martijn Tonies
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