On Nov 25, 2005, at 9:36 AM, mario ruggier wrote:

> Assuming that the durus port is not "maliciously accessible", then
> I can very happily live with having durus shut down. I guess this
> is by and large always the case. But what if durus server is
> running on a different machine (anyone known to have done this?),
> then isn't there a risk of having it maliciously shut down? No idea
> what other db servers do in similar case.

It is okay to run the server on a different machine, but it should be
on an interface that
is not exposed to any non-trusted process.  You might want to do this
for a high-traffic
site, running server machine with private connections to other
machines running
the clients.