True, but in general the data is more valuable than the application box.
Keeping data on the internal network is more secure and offers manageability
advantages. (and if you really wanted to limit the number of open ports you
could run the listener on port80. )
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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"Holger Marzen" <holger_at_marzen.de> wrote in message
news:a5vk0h$thc$1_at_bluebell.marzen.de...
> * On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 18:47:31 +0000 (UTC), Niall Litchfield wrote:
>
> > because you can happily pass oracle traffic from a web server or app
server
> > through an appropriate firewall to oracle located on an internal
network.
>
> But you have to open an additional tcp-Port inside the internal network.
> Not everyone does this happily if the data can kept outside the internal
> network. It depends on the application.
Received on Mon Mar 04 2002 - 06:11:54 CST
