From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | "Keith C(dot) Perry" <netadmin(at)vcsn(dot)com> |
Cc: | Shelby Cain <alyandon(at)yahoo(dot)com>, "Uwe C(dot) Schroeder" <uwe(at)oss4u(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Edwin New <edwin_new(at)toll(dot)com(dot)au> |
Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL still for Linux only? |
Date: | 2005-03-09 20:37:30 |
Message-ID: | 422F5E8A.5040202@commandprompt.com |
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>The only additional thing I would add to this if it hasn't been mentioned
>already is that 2000 had/has some major security issues and even though 2003 is
>more secure out of the box from what I've experienced so far, I would **never**
>trust a windows box to anything other than my LAN using private IP blocks and if
>it has inbound access via a public IP then it would more certainly be behind
>another firewall that is NAT'ing/Port Forwarding its traffic.
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Nobody should ever put a server regardless of OS on a public IP.
It should always be firewalled/Nat/Port Forwarding.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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