From: Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@...>
Date: 2004-12-11T16:09:42+09:00
Subject: Bridging DRb UNIX socket services on two hosts

Hi,

I have two computers, both running a bunch of DRb services on them. The 
services run on UNIX sockets with drbunix in order to use the OS file 
permissions for access control.

How would I go about bridging the computers in a secure fashion so that 
one computer's services can talk to the other? Preferably without 
exposing the services to the network or using a NFS/Samba mount.

One way I am thinking about is using an SSH tunnel between the 
computers (again, to benefit from the existing access controls in the 
OS), and run a proxy service that proxies calls between the hosts.

Is that sensible? How would I go about writing that? Start proxy 
service on both hosts, set up the tunnel to make them talk to each 
other, set up new proxy object for each method call, wrap all 
DRbObjects? Is there a better way?

Any pointers appreciated.

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  -Ilmari