Exporting NFS volume to public IP

Question

I need to have access to a shared volume from my server. I talked with my sysadmins and I knew that this volume could not be exported to a private IP address due to technical reasons. My server and the volume stays in the same datacenter. They need to use my server public IP.

Are there some drawbacks with this approach? Should I be worry about the shared volume?

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FB

from what I know, if you shared volume is exported using nfs, in a normal world, nfs isn't exposed to public, but only on the private network. — c4f4t0r, Mar 31 '17 at 09:44

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 31 '17 at 09:52

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Make sure you have appropriately firewalled the NFS server, closely monitor it and you should be fine.

This has other drawbacks of course, aside from the security implications.

answered Mar 31 '17 at 09:52

Sven

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What kind of implications? – FrankBr Mar 31 '17 at 09:57
Everything on a public interface is at risk and must be proteced and monitored, which might not be necessary on a private interface. I call this a security implication... – Sven Mar 31 '17 at 10:01
Oh, sure. I though you were thinking about something else. – FrankBr Mar 31 '17 at 10:03

Exporting NFS volume to public IP

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