> Is there a way to ensure that a FB database listens only to localhost as a
> way of increased security?

If you are on 2.1 or later, you could write an ON CONNECT trigger, which
throws an exception if the client ip (using RDB$GET_CONTEXT) is
different to 127.0.0.1 or 'localhost'.



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With regards,

Thomas Steinmaurer
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com
http://blog.upscene.com/thomas/

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