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From: Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan@ochtman.nl>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 16:51:08 +0100
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Subject: Re: Replication and security advice sought
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On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 16:44, Robert Johnson <robert@rowanshire.net> wrote:
> Advice and guidance would be very gratefully received, but please bear in=
 mind that whilst I am a pretty good application developer, my networking k=
nowledge generally and proxy / firewall knowledge specifically is limited t=
o principals and not practice so if you could explain the details of any su=
ggestions in detail at a "put this line in this file" type level I would be=
 eternally grateful.

Or you could use a VPN (virtual private network; an encrypted channel
tunneled over the internet). We use OpenVPN to do CouchDB replications
over the internet at work. It's free and fairly easy to set up.

Cheers,

Dirkjan