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[SQL] Port?

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Dirk Drechsel
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Does anyone knows, when I'ld configure a firewall, whether i let open a port for the pg-database?

regards and thx
Dirk Drechsel

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Re: [SQL] Port?

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Dirk Drechsel
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I forgot to write, that I use postgresdb for dynamic HomePages.
 

Dirk Drechsel wrote:

Does anyone knows, when I'ld configure a firewall, whether i let open a port for the pg-database?

regards and thx
Dirk Drechsel

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Re: [SQL] Port?

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Jeff MacDonald
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if you intend to allow odbc connections , or psql sessions
from other hosts you should open port 5432

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Dirk Drechsel wrote:

> Does anyone knows, when I'ld configure a firewall, whether i let open a
> port for the pg-database?
> 
> regards and thx
> Dirk Drechsel
> 

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RE: [SQL] Port?

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Clark Joel A1C AMC CSS
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>I forgot to write, that I use postgresdb for dynamic HomePages.  
If that is the case, you can go ahead and deny 5432 on the outside
interface, (I am assuming here) since your webserver will access it on an
inside interface.

jc