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		Fluxx on Nov 14, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why should I firewall servers? Am I missing something? If you have a server open to the internet, like a database server, it means it's open to brute force attacks. And who wants that?

zokier on Nov 14, 2010 [–]

If you are running database locally, then bind the daemon to localhost only, otherwise bind it to a non routable private address. Problem solved.

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