Re: Firewalling Oracle

Thanks for the replies.

Our boxes are all behind a firewall.

I got dinged for not using TCP checking in the listener.

Seems overkill to me.

One private reply had a good point - prevent QA boxes from talking to production boxes, etc.

Jared

On 1/11/06, Peter Sylvester wrote:
>
> Its been a while since I've played with this, but it seemed to me that
> there where issuses if you put hosnames in the TCP.INVITED_NODES that
> where running Dynamic IPs. The DNS lookup in the listener evidently is
> evidently done once, and it does not see the new IP unless you bounce
> the listener.
>
> Its not an issue with app servers and the like (running fixed IPs), but
> for people who wanted some admin type of access from their desktops it
> was.
>
> --Peter
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Jared Still
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