Re: [Firebird-devel] Strong request for 1.5: Stopping FB trying to access port 3050 when server is local

[Phil S. <ph...@sh...>]

On Friday 28 February 2003 21:29, Raymond Kennington wrote:

Hi,

> > Thats a Firewall issue not a FB one.  FB needs to bind to a port to
> > accept client connections, and if the Firewall shows a message, it will
> > need to be configured to allow/ignore FB.
>
> FB has no need to access the network connection when the server and the
> client are on the same m/c, nor any other network for that matter.

Depends if you talking about the server or client.  And depends on your 
connection string.  If you use <server>:<path> to connect, it uses TCP/IP, 
and for that to work, the server needs to be listening on a port

> Surely it doesn't require TCP/IP installed to run locally?

If you use the memory mapped file way of connecting(e.g. just a path name), 
then, no it does not need TCP/IP, but the server listens on a TCP/IP port 
anyway.  Although it seems this can be turned off in current betas

> Did Interbase 5?

Yes.  At least there was no setting to turn it off.

> I think not, for TCP/IP was not installed, only NetBEUI. I've never had to
> configure a port.

The install does this for you.

> What happens if no network files at all are installed on a standalone m/c?
> Will FB still work? 

No, and neither will IB (not counting the current beta)

> I really do want my users to be able to not worry about others getting
> access to their database if they don't have a firewall installed that warns
> them.

If they have a decent firewall, only ports they explicity allow should be 
exposed to the 'outside'.  If they have not got a decent firewall, there is 
more to worry about than people accessing a FB server <g>

> Meanwhile, I've configured the firewall to not allow FB to be a server on
> my own m/c.

FB has to run as as server (so clients can connection), so I guess you have 
closed the external port?  (why was it open in the first place?)

Phil

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