From: Ellen K. 

I think I used the wrong terminology, I meant "external IP
address", not "public IP address".  Our own servers, except
for the mail server, all only have internal IP addresses.

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:23:50 -0400, "Geo" 
wrote in message :

>It depends on what they mean by "it has a public IP address".
All my servers
>have a public IP address at netlink but the SQL server can't talk to
>anything outside netlink.
>
>It is something to be concerned about but without knowing the exact setup I
>can't say if it's a high or low risk.
>
>Geo.
>
>"Ellen K."  wrote in message
>news:2s4ml1hqp0j39pq719j08l3e4od9h1ohn4{at}4ax.com...
>> Meanwhile the guy who is now in charge of all the infrastructure stuff
>> came back from vacation and I found out that we have NO IDEA what's
>> actually going on behind the eOn router, i.e. for all we know maybe that
>> SQL Server has a public IP address.  I was astounded to learn that we
>> can't see anything about it.   NetworkGuy had told me that box is behind
>> our firewall... but if that's the case, AND it has a public IP address,
>> then I think we are vulnerable, right?
>

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