[Zope] Re: zeo configuration

[Michael Martinides]

Thanks, this works fine!

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:

> 
> On Nov 21, 2004, at 15:30, Michael Martinides wrote:
> 
>> Hello!
>>
>> Is there any way to configure the zeo server to only listen to requests
>> coming from the localhost? I couldn't find any documentation
>> concerning the
>> zeo configuration file.
>>
>> Basically, I would like to secure my zeo Server from access via the
>> internet
>> without resorting to iptables.
> 
> The safest way IMHO is to configure it and the ZEO client to
> communicate via a socket file. Just insert a file path into the
> "address" line in the ZEO server config and do the same on the ZEO
> client side.
> 
> Whereas network sockets on localhost are still open to connections from
> anyone the unix socket file can be protected by protecting its
> surrounding filesystem directories (permissions on a socket file work
> differently or not at all, that's why you secure the directories
> surrounding it).
> 
> jens
> 
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