[buug] Secure NFS?

Nick Jennings nkj at namodn.com
Tue Feb 18 10:32:29 PST 2003


On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:17:24PM -0800, Jon McClintock wrote:
> Alternatively, does anyone have a spare PCI ethernet card? The problem
> is, the server with the files on it is on the public internet, and the
> OS/X client is on a NAT network behind the firewall. I've got the server
> setup to only allow NFS from the firewall's IP, but since the firewall
> also NATs for the (unprotected) wireless network, there's a wee hole in
> my security that I'd rather not have.

 Why don't you just block NFS requests comming from the router? You 
 shouldn't need to access NFS data from your router anyways.

- Nick



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