Temporarily blocking SOCKETS connections

Hi all, I am wondering what the best method is for temporarily blocking SOCKET based connections to my Informix 7.31 Server (running on HP-UX 10.20). Our application is client/server in that the client is running on P.C.'s(WIN95/NT) connecting to the IDS 7.31 DB Server. I have two connection types defined on the Informix Server namely, sockets and shared-memory - obviously the P.C.'s would be connecting via sockets. If I want to be able to block access to the Informix Database Server to these client(P.C.'s) I thought that it would be a simple matter of commenting out the relevant lines in either the '/etc/services' or '$INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts' file. I have included below the relevant connection information from the '$ONCONFIG', '/etc/services' and '$INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts' files. Now, I tried commenting out the 'geff1_soc' line from BOTH the '/etc/services' and '$INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts' (and even bounced the Informix Engine) but the clients(P.C.'s) can still connect. How can this be? Is there another approach that I can take eg. Perhaps there is some way through the UNIX OS where I can specify a port (1557 in this case) to be temporarily disabled? Here, are the configuration files: '$ONCONFIG' file (Connection Type) ------------------------- NETTYPE ipcshm,1,30,NET NETTYPE soctcp,1,30,CPU '/etc/services' file ------------------------ geff1_soc 1557/tcp # Finance One Sockets geff1_shm 1558/tcp # Finance One Shared Memory '$INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts' file ----------------------------------------------- geff1_soc onsoctcp kenny geff1_soc geff1_shm onipcshm kenny geff1_shm Regards, Adam Bradley

In article <01bfa41f$4e7e3a60$150510ac@adamb.ahmg.com.au>, "Adam Bradley" <Adam.Bradley@ahmg.com.au> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am wondering what the best method is for temporarily blocking SOCKET > based > connections to my Informix 7.31 Server (running on HP-UX 10.20). > > Our application is client/server in that the client is running on > P.C.'s(WIN95/NT) connecting to the IDS 7.31 DB Server. > > I have two connection types defined on the Informix Server namely, sockets > and shared-memory - obviously the P.C.'s would be connecting via sockets. > > If I want to be able to block access to the Informix Database Server to > these client(P.C.'s) I thought that > it would be a simple matter of commenting out the relevant lines in either > the '/etc/services' or > '$INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts' file. > > I have included below the relevant connection information from the > '$ONCONFIG', '/etc/services' and > '$INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts' files. > > Now, I tried commenting out the 'geff1_soc' line from BOTH the > '/etc/services' and '$INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts' > (and even bounced the Informix Engine) but the clients(P.C.'s) can still > connect. > > How can this be? > > Is there another approach that I can take eg. Perhaps there is some way > through the > UNIX OS where I can specify a port (1557 in this case) to be temporarily > disabled? > > Here, are the configuration files: > > '$ONCONFIG' file (Connection Type) > ------------------------- > NETTYPE ipcshm,1,30,NET > NETTYPE soctcp,1,30,CPU> > '/etc/services' file > ------------------------ > geff1_soc 1557/tcp # Finance One Sockets > geff1_shm 1558/tcp # Finance One Shared Memory > > '$INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts' file > ----------------------------------------------- > geff1_soc onsoctcp kenny geff1_soc > geff1_shm onipcshm kenny geff1_shm> > Regards, > Adam Bradley > > Have you tried commenting out the entries in /etc/services ? No idea whether this would work but check it out - usual disclaimers apply ! Regards Mr Creosote -- "Just a waffer thin mint?" Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.