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Re: Level3 routing issues?
From: Avleen Vig <lists-nanog () silverwraith com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:03:57 -0800
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:20:41PM -0500, C. Jon Larsen wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Avleen Vig wrote: [snip]Let's not blame MS for admins who don't know how to secure their boxes :-) A patch was released mid-2002 and was also part of SQL Server SP3Would it not also be a good idea/practice *not* to ever let a MS SQL server (or *any* database server) sit on a network that is directly accessible from the internet ? Having a firewall(s) in front of your database server regardless of the type is pretty much common sense, right? Its bad enough to be stuck having to run/support IIS and MSSQL in any scenario, but letting MSSQL talk to the world just seems like asking for even more trouble.
I agree absolutely. This is just bad practice and the network admins here need to re-think their security architecture.
Current thread:
- Re: VPN clients and security models, (continued)
- Re: VPN clients and security models David Howe (Jan 28)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jan 26)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Robert A. Hayden (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Jack Bates (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Daniel Senie (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Jared Mauch (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Avleen Vig (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Jack Bates (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Alex Rubenstein (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? C. Jon Larsen (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Avleen Vig (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Grant A. Kirkwood (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Stephen J. Wilcox (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Christopher L. Morrow (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Scott Call (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Neil J. McRae (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Stephen Milton (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Avleen Vig (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Alex Rubenstein (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Dave Stewart (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Stephen Milton (Jan 26)