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Re: Is it possible to configure amanda and inetd just for localho st?
2005-04-25 15:00:38
donald.ritchey AT exeloncorp DOT com wrote:
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!!!
The original question had nothing to do with using 'localhost' as
hostname in the disklist (which is indeed a bad idea).
Vlad simply wanted to know if he can restrict Amanda daemons so that
they only accept connections from localhost. This is very good idea if
the server is it's own only client - the less ports open to the network,
the better.
One obvious way to achieve this is to use your favourite firewall
package. It may be also possible to achieve this with the means of inetd
(amanda services are started from there), but I'm not sure of that.
Surely inetd documentation has the answer.
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