>
>Once people get past trying to think of Firebird as a file-served data
>repository, and start thinking of it as a scalable client/server system,
>the security of making local client connections architecturally consistent
>with remote ones tends to outweigh the minor irritation of the one-line
>edit of the HOSTS file that might be needed on very old servers.
>
>./hb

Oh, and I agree 200% with this statement. Although I would add that (IMHO)
it is also part of the "Windows Mindset" - at least, it has been for me. it
was only when I started playing around with Linux and Inet and all the
security stuff you can do in Linux that I started realizing what I had been
missing. I suspect that because Windows makes so many things (like network
admin) so easy, wrapping it in a GUI, I was just not aware of the work
involved in the background, nor of the network security issues involved.

Regards, thanks

Tim

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