Vlad:

Please review the Amanda archives for discussions of the pitfalls of 
using localhost as part of your backup configuration.  This is a 
subject that has been beaten into submission quite thoroughly.

The short answer and general consensus from the Amanda community:

        Don't do it!!!

Donald L. (Don) Ritchey
Information Technology
Exelon Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: Vlad Popa [mailto:vlad.popa AT sbg.ac DOT at]
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 12:42 PM
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Is it possible to configure amanda and inetd just for
localhost?


Hi from  Austria!

I was wondering, if it might be possible to reduce the open ports 
induced by amanda to the  local IP address (interface lo, 127.0.0.1) in 
inetd.conf since I thought using amanda client and server on the same 
machine. External nmap port scans of this server should not find any 
open amanda ports.

Greetings

Vlad Popa


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