On Dec 31, 2005, at 2:58 AM, Chris Stephens wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have recently installed a dual XServe G5 at a datacentre and they  
> won't let me (yet!) open up ports 311 and 1220 - for QTSS publisher  
> and the web interface to QTSS respectively.
>
> While I was there the guys (mostly Linux guys, fwiw) rang up a  
> "friend" who warned them empahtically not to tunnel these two  
> through SSH - but without giving any reason.
>
> Is this mystery person right? Is there a security risk of doing  
> that? Has anyone done this? If so, what is the best way - using SSH  
> Tunnel Manager?
>
> Thanks for your help with this...
>
> :)
>
> Chris

It's possible that your "mystery friend" was concerned about exposing  
ssh directly to the public internet.  IPSec is a safer choice,  
although it places an additional computational burden on both the  
broadcaster and server.

Regards,
--
Kevin Packard
blackfrog software, inc.

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