Jonny Goldman <jonathan @
Think .
COM> writes:
# Server forwarding is built into every WAIS server, so if you can run a
# server on your firewall host, you can tunnel to external servers using it.
# Server forwarding uses the database-name field of the source description to
# encode a remote server/port/database, of the form:
#
# db @
host:port
#
# You can easily modify the source description, replacing the :ip-name with
# the name of your firewall, the :tcp-port with the port the server is using,
# and the :database-name with the encoded name. If your firewall can connect
# to the remote server, you're done. This is what the automatic forwarding
# client code does.
I assume that the forwarding server uses a random TCP port above 1024
for its end of the conversation with the real server? In other words,
the forwarding server uses port 210 to talk to the internal client,
and some random TCP port above 1024 to talk to the "real" server on
the outside world?
-Brent
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