June 9, 2004 at 4:23 am
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Brian Knight
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June 10, 2004 at 5:56 am
Looked at this from the newsletter...followed the link http://www.cooljules.co.uk/ntl.htm
Kinda freaked me out, this person is from my hometown and went to my school.....hate getting freaked out like that
June 10, 2004 at 7:18 am
Am I misunderstanding something?
Is this person trying to manage a database over the internet OUTSIDE of a VPN????
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June 11, 2004 at 3:46 am
Also cannot believe anyone would put SQL Servers that hold any useful data directly on the net on port 1433. I use NTL and often do bits and pieces from home over NTL. Our firewall has a dedicated VPN client and I have tested this morning that I can access servers in the office and at our 80+ remote vpn sites. We have PPTP set up as a plan B and I tested that and it works perfectly too.
So I really don't think NTL have done anything wrong. In fact I would go as far as to say that they are doing us all a favour by forcing the people who do this sort of thing to clean up their act. If you absolutely *have* to have your server attached directly to the net then you should at least change the port to something other that 1433.... or have a firewall that redirects a different port to 1433 on the server. In my mind neither of these are good practice on the net these days. A secure IPSec VPN client has to be best for remote working.....
No personal offence intended here.... I am just astounded at the article....
Andy
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