[Courses] [Security] Firewall theory -- UDP and nameservers

[Jenn Vesperman]

On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 08:23, Kai MacTane wrote:
> At 3/22/02 05:32 AM , Jenn Vesperman wrote:
> 
> >The diehard IPv4 addict's 'solution' to running out of real addresses.
> >Once we force them all to move to IPv6, NAT will vanish.
> 
> I can't see why; NAT is also useful for security. 
>
> Sure, NAT started as an address-space conservation scheme. But it's also 
> become intimately associated with IPmasq for security purposes. When IPv6 
> comes in, I'll still be using masquerading to protect the OSes that can't 
> handle the rigors of exposure to the raw Internet.

Ok. How about 'the nature and uses of NAT will be modified'? More
appropriate? :)



Jenn V.
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