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1 point by eds 5972 days ago | link | parent

Thanks for the reminder, I had forgotten about that.

I'm still not sure that's a complete solution though... you don't really prevent access to the port, you just send an access denied message instead of serving the request. (But I don't know that much about web security, so maybe that really is sufficient.)



1 point by almkglor 5972 days ago | link

Not sure either. It depends on whether the Arc Server is secure/{not dumb} enough such that it won't be fooled by someone pretending to be from 127.0.0.1 , for example.

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1 point by eds 5972 days ago | link

Couldn't you just make Apache or Linux firewall port 8080 so all attempts to access it from outside are blocked? (That said, I wouldn't know how to do that off the top of my head.)

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2 points by gnaritas 5970 days ago | link

Yes, and that's the right approach. See http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/4/25/ubuntu-hardy-setup-p... and scroll down to iptables to see how to setup a firewall on Linux.

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1 point by eds 5964 days ago | link

Thanks! That was a really useful article, and not only for setting up firewalls.

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