server uptime

[Lloyd Kvam]

On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 20:26 -0400, Mark Komarinski wrote:
> Bill McGonigle wrote:
> > It's also connected naked to the Internet for remote monitoring.
> >
> > For some strange reason, you'd just accept this.
> >   
> Venturing even further off-topic, I have two different labs that wrote 
> code without really consulting anyone else.  One thought it would save a 
> lot of time if their fat client application connected directly to Oracle 
> from anywhere on the Internet.  The other thought it would be a good 
> idea to do the same with MySQL.  The Oracle group we didn't have much 
> luck with and they're stuck using SSH port forwarding.  The MySQL group 
> seems to be a bit more receptive and they may change their application 
> to go through a web service instead.

I'm not arguing against the web service approach.  However, you can use
SSL certificates to control (and encrypt) MySQL access.  That offers
reasonable security at the cost of yet another thing to configure and
worry about.

> 
> I keep hoping that bioinformatics courses include even a week or two on 
> 'sane coding practices', but I doubt it will happen...
> 
> -Mark
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