Re: Secure SQL*Net

From: Phil Herring <revdoc_at_uow.edu.au>
Date: 1997/12/05
Message-ID: <667h30$245$1@wyrm.its.uow.edu.au>#1/1

In article <667bjo$o6n$1_at_interport.net> Cheng-Jih Chen, cjc_at_interport.net writes:
>SQL*NET will look at 1521 on localhost and start talking to it. ssh
>takes whatever is being sent to localhost:1521 and sends it off to
><db_server>:1521. Bang! I'm talking to the database on an encrypted
>channel.

Are you using dedicated servers on your instance? It seems to me that this would only work with that configuration, because as soon as you start MTS, the listener redirects traffic to whatever port number the allocated dispatcher is using at the time, and that port number can't easily be predicted in advance.

Received on Fri Dec 05 1997 - 00:00:00 CST