Hi All,

I've been searching thru this newsgroup (and Google) looking for
advice on securing my Firebird server installation, but haven't quite
found what I'm looking for.

Here's the scenario. I have Firebird 2.1 installed on a Ubuntu 8.04
LTS VPS. I have an application installed on the same box, and it
communicates successfully with Firebird. But I also need to access
Firebird from my home development PC with my Firebird GUI management
tool (Firebird Maestro) - this currently works fine too.

I think I need to use iptables to configure a firewall to accomplish 2
things regarding Firebird:

1. Allow access to Firebird from the application (localhost)
2. Allow access to Firebird from the web but *only* from my home dev PC

Does anyone have the specific setup parameters for iptables to set
this up? With all the iptables documentation I've been able to
Google, the only thing I've been able to accomplish is to lock myself
and the application out of Firebird.

Help!