Accessing the nagios host from the outside: best practice?

Emmanuel Halbwachs Emmanuel.Halbwachs at lpn.cnrs.fr
Thu May 19 18:34:54 CEST 2005


Andreas Ericsson a écrit :
> Reverse proxies are almost always bad ideas, as it adds a whopping 
> amount of code for there to be bugs in, beside the actual webserver itself.
> 
> A simple portforwarding solution would be best, methinks.
> man iptables, if you're running a linux kind of firewall.

Actually no, my firewall is a router.
Sounds like "static inside destination NAT/PAT".
I'll have a look on my router configuration.

Thank you very much for your answer.

I'm still curious on how you others do if in such a situation?

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