Re: VPN to database?

I don't know. After hearing the explanation, it very well may be.

Our network guy is out (honeymoon). And my experience w/ VPN is slim. For some reason I never considered it to be "just another protocol" but rather to be a magical way that I could just appear to be on the local net to all these machines.

I'll suggest the ssh tunnelling option.

Todd Boss (sorry, I sometimes get colloquial and just sign my last name)

>
> Boss
> Is this a firewall issue?
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:45 AM
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>
> I can tell you right now, i'm VPN'd to a client overseas and have
> NOT been able to get OCI to work over the protocol. I can telnet/ssh
> to the machine where the Oracle server runs (its Solaris) and work
> via a sql*plus window, but nothing runs locally (i.e., Toad or windows
> version of sql*plus connected to the remote server).
>
> If there's some secret to making OCI work over VPN, we were not able
> to find it.
>
> boss
>
> >
> > We are an Application Service Provider--we maintain a set of servers in
> > a colocation facility and our customers use our application via the
> > Web. Security is a paramount concern, of course, and only our Web
> > server has a public IP address, with the application and database
> > servers completely private.
> >
> > We supply a number of standard reports, but most of our customers want
> > some custom reports as well. We would like to give them access to our
> > database, possibly over a VPN, but only if security can be maintained.
> > I'd like to know if anyone has faced such a situation, and what kind of
> > configuration (network/firewall/VPN/Oracle Net) might make such access
> > possible.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> >
> >
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