Re: TCP/IP Dial-In to AS/400

[Booth Martin <boothm@xxxxxxx>]

Think about using FTP or HTTP, but if that is the only reason you are putting
your machine on the web consider saving connection costs and putting your
download files on a website at your ISP's facility, and dial up to the ISP
whenever you have changes.  Another legitimate choice would be to have the
customer's e-mail addresses, and when you have a change, e-mail the change to
your list, as attachments.  Security is easy and possible, but it does require
learning, time, and energy.  You might rather let the ISP worry about security.
A whole lot of NT sites went down a day or so ago, and the glitch was apparently
unique to NT, but that does not mean everyone else has got their own holes
plugged, including the AS/400.

Christian Luebke wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We'd like to distribute minor updates of our software using the AS/400 as
> Web-Server - this is the easy part - but are there any security holes? Since
> that would be our machine we use for programming, security has highest
> priority...
>
> Any hints?
>
> Bye, Christian



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