Re: postgres "on in the internet"

Mike Mascari wrote:

> Paul Tillotson wrote:
>
>> At my company we are looking at deploying clients for our
>> client/server app outside our firewall, which will then require
>> our postgres box to be internet-accessible. Does anyone out there
>> have experience with this or recommended best practices? We have
>> been looking at either (a) tunnelling everything over ssh, or (b)
>> just making sure that users have "strong" passwords and requiring
>> "md5" authentication in pg_hba.conf.
>>
>> Our client app is in C# using the postgresql .net data provider.
>
>
> Is the .net provider capable of an SSL connection? I'd be hesitant to
> throw around data over the Internet without using SSL for all the
> various reasons: DNS hijacking, TCP replay, etc.

If not you can tunnel it.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola