On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 01:14:00AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 15.01.2018 um 23:31 schrieb Ruben Safir:
Now, I had two choices, to change the software to talk across the open local area network, and move the database to the webserver... or hot copy, which I know maria has been able to do for a while, but I never implimented it. But i want to do this and restrict connections to the internal network. It is easy enough to justblock the external ports but I would rather do this through the database.
but it is pretty dumb have mysqld reachable on the WAN because you expose every future CVE for no good reason
Restrict network access? Specify the correct peer ip address or a host name when creating a user
the IP - security based on PTR records and rely on name-resolution is a bad idea, anyways one needs still tell me one sane reason why do ip restrictions in the atatcked application instead the networklayer in front of
Because that is how I want it. The longer explanation is, because that is how I want to do it, period. I really didn't ask for a debate on the pros and cons of firewalls
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