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Re: Is ODBC secure through a firewall?

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Old 02-27-2008, 07:14 PM
Steve Thompson
 
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Default Re: Is ODBC secure through a firewall?

"Matt Goulet" <mgouletmbta@lycos.com> wrote in message
news:0c7601c3511e$9da8cce0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> What is the most secure method of establishing an ODBC
> connection from a webserver in the DMZ to a SQL Server
> database running on the private network? I can NAT the
> internal address and open port 1433, but how secure is
> that?
>

Depends on how you do it... we've done something similar and only enabled
server to server communication through the firewall. In addition, consider
using a port number other than 1433.

You'll want to give this a read:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;287932

Steve


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