dovecot - Oct 2016 - Dovecot Proxy and Director

Hi,
just a simple question: by using a directory and a proxy, I would be
able to totally hide the pop3/imap server ip addresses from outside?
I'm asking this because I would like to hide the real server IP for
security reasosn (DDoS and so on).

The proxy would be placed on servers with high bandwidth while the
pop3/imap dovecot servers are placed in a small datacenter that would
go down easily in case of attack

> On October 29, 2016 at 5:17 PM Gandalf Corvotempesta
<gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> just a simple question: by using a directory and a proxy, I would be
> able to totally hide the pop3/imap server ip addresses from outside?
> I'm asking this because I would like to hide the real server IP for
> security reasosn (DDoS and so on).
> 
> The proxy would be placed on servers with high bandwidth while the
> pop3/imap dovecot servers are placed in a small datacenter that would
> go down easily in case of attack

You could use private ip addresses backends so you don't even need to expose
them to internet at all.

Aki

2016-10-29 17:02 GMT+02:00 Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at
dovecot.fi>:
> You could use private ip addresses backends so you don't even need to
expose them to internet at all.
This means creating a VPN between my local DC with Dovecot servers and
the cloud service provider with proxies.