Firewall port 3050

[Kyle Green]

I have firebird and a webserver running on the same Windows Server 19 box. I want to close port 3050 to outside access, no other machine needs access. But I don't know enough about firewalls to know whether that will affect the internal connection from my websites, and FlameRobin.

Can I safely close the port? Or can I partially close the port?

Thanks,

Kyle

[Wavey Maple]

You can specify a different port in the connection on both ends, so it shouldn't be an issue.

David

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[Dave Schulz]

It should affect much, if anything, because a lot of applications aren't going to  be using port 3050. If it does, you can always change the port.

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[Scott Morgan]

If both are running on the same machine, you should be able to safely
close the port to outside access. Whatever the webserver's app is doing
to connect will probably be either direct file access or via the
localhost loopback.

Worst case, if for some reason it does block the webserver, it's quick
and easy to revert.

Scott

[Dimitry Sibiryakov]

02.06.2021 04:50, Kyle Green wrote:
> I have firebird and a webserver running on the same Windows Server 19 box.

In this case it is enough to change RemoteBindAddress in firebird.conf to "localhost"
or "127.0.0.1".

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[Rustam]

In Windows Firewall's 'Inbound rules' create rule for port 3050 and use tab 'Scope' to limit IP adresses, from which port will be accesible. Allow connections only for 'localhost' (127.0.0.1) or LAN (e.g.192.168.0.1/24)

Kyle Green:

I want to close port 3050 to outside access, no other machine needs access. But I don't know enough about firewalls to know.

[Kyle Green]

Thank you all for these good ideas, I will try some and report back for reference!