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Re: How to restrict Oracle to my PC vs Internet

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:18:44 -0800
Message-ID: <1071249429.864657@yasure>


Moritzio wrote:

> Sorry, Oracle 9.2, Standard.
> 
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:15:19 -0800, Daniel Morgan
> <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> 

>>Moritzio wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'm just starting to develop on Oracle. I just finished the first VB
>>>sample program that connects to the database. During that test, I
>>>noticed that several Oracle tools and services are dependent having
>>>access to the internet, even though the database is on my PC. Zone
>>>Alarm reports that the several java programs, Listener and Agent
>>>services want access to the internet, not just my trusted LAN. Since
>>>all development and testing will be on the internal LAN, I want to
>>>restrict these programs from accessing or acting as server on the
>>>internet. If I use Zonealarm to enforce this requirement, agent and
>>>listener services fail. I have to allow them access to local and
>>>remote ips or I cannot connect to the database on my own machine.
>>>
>>>Is there a way I can be more restrictive?
>>>
>>>-Mo
>>>
>>
>>No Oracle product/version information. What is it tonight? You want
>>answers and you think all versions of Oracle are the same?
>>
>>Are we supposed to guess what you have?

There is nothing in the 9.2 database that cares whether you are attached to the internet: Not even the Apache server. You are going to need to be very specific as to what you are doing as whatever it is it has nothing to do with the database itself.

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Received on Fri Dec 12 2003 - 11:18:44 CST

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