At 00:18 02/04/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>We are running FireBird in a Mandrake 9 Linux box connected to the
>Internet. We want to allow access to the database only to the
>localhost and the local LAN, but want to reject requests from the
>Internet.
>
>We want to know if this can be done simply by configuring hosts.equiv
>or gds_hosts.equiv (and how) or if we need to setup a firewall to do this.
>
>Currently we are using FB 1.0 but plan to upgrade to 1.5 soon.
>
>Thanks in advance for any hints,
>
>-Benton

Hi Benton,

In Fb 1.5 you have an option in firebird.conf to bind firebird to a
specific NIC, sou this could solve your problem... BUT if this was MY
server and if FB should not accept connections from internet, off course I
will put a firewall to block port 3050 on that machine.

see you !


Alexandre Benson Smith
Development
THOR Software e Comercial Ltda.
Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
www.thorsoftware.com.br

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