Re: streaming rep setup in PCI compliance environment

On 10/09/2015 05:49 PM, Scott Ribe wrote:
> On Oct 9, 2015, at 10:48 AM, dinesh bhandary <dbhandary(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> I am trying to setup streaming rep between master ( which is in PCI tier1 zone) to slave ( PCI tier 2 zone). However, I am told that PCI tier1 can only initiate connection to lower security zone, in our case slave environment ( PCI tier 2). However, for streaming rep to work, slave needs to connect to Master. Does this violate PCI requirement. Anyone has experience setting up master-salve in PCI compliance environment?
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> I have a simliar situation in which I do not want anything in my replica's zone to be able to initiate connections into the data center where the primary is. I have the master set up an SSH reverse tunnel to the slave, and then the slave connects to that tunnel end locally.
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You could also just use archiving, hot_standby still works when you do that.

JD

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