> > > > > > i highly doubt you, Lennart, or anyone else for that matter has any > > > real numbers to support anything being said, so please, spare me. > > > > > > > That would be obvious to anyone with any experience. Show me data that > > says sshd is used more often behind firewalls. Of course it isn't. What > > data that there are far more remote hosting than local hosting, of > > course there is, you shouldn't need data to accept this point. Just > > check your logs. I'd hope that if you run a daemon, you expect someone > > to connect to it. > > > > I recently worked for a large international compay who provided security appliances > to filter web requests,block spam, filter virus', archive email & more but > these appaliances use ssh clustering where by your company purchases 4 spam & virus filter > from my old employer all 4 of these appliances are linked via ssh so you only > need to make changes to 1 of the 4 linked units & these changes are replicated > VIA SSH & for those wishing to can connect these appliances to my employers > central server farm in US & one can login to a web based admin console & make changes there > which again is replicated via ssh. To add to that when a customer reqiures support > this is provided via ssh. > my ex-employer are market leaders in these appliance and literally have thousands > scaretterd accross the globe which i think should prove that ssh is very much in use > publicly & behind firewalls! It's also used for temporary remote desktop access to fix windows boxes enabled when a client loads up similar to log me in. Aside from ssh is brill, is your point that there may be many connections behind firewalls too with tunneling and such? I use ssh behind firewalls too, but in that case it is connected to many times a day by all users but it is definately a fact that ssh is mainly used for its primary purpose of crossing the internet safely, mainly to public facing remote servers. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________
