> I would like to know if anyone has anything positive or negative > to say about having a database port open on a public network.
Don't do it without SSL protection or other additional armoring techniques like restricting the IP addresses that can connect to it if you care at all about the validity of the data you receive via that database. Hostiles will a) find it, and b) misuse it. If you've taken the time to do the additional protections, then it works very reliably, even from Windows clients. > Is anyone using MySQL server with SSL secure connections. The binary > for the server as available on SLES 10 was not built with the SSL > support. Has anyone built MySQL on zLinux with SSL support included? It works, but is somewhat difficult to build in that the package has a lot of dependencies. If you're comfortable building from source RPMs, it's not too bad, but it will take you a while to get all the moving parts put together. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
