Re: Net8 proxy ?

It would be easier to use port forwarding on the web server to redirect the connections to the actual database server; this can even forward connections across a firewall, if that is how the web server is set up.

Rainer Fuegenstein wrote in message
<36F6C568.764A346B_at_iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at>...
>I'm rather new to oracle but I already got a rather tricky problem to
solve:
>
>We've got two servers running linux, one of them runs as web server and has
>oracle 8 installed, but no oracle 8 instance is running. The other one is a
>dedicated oracle 8 database server. net8 connections to this server are
only
>allowed from the web server.
>
>since java applications downloaded from the web server can only connect
back
>to this server (and not to the database server), we need to set up some
kind
>of sqlnet/net8 proxy on the web server which passes requests comming from
the
>rest of the world to the database server.
>
>I guess that for this purpose only the net8 listener has to be running on
the
>web server, but I'm not sure how the listener.ora and tnsnames.ora files on
>the web server have to look like.
>
>both instances on the database server (ora1 and ora2) are already running
and
>are accessible from the web server using either oraperl or sqlplus using
the
>names dbone.ora1 and dbone.ora2.
>
>Any help highly appreciated.
Received on Mon Mar 22 1999 - 23:57:54 CET