Re: Security gain from NAT (was: Re: Cool IPv6 Stuff)

From: Donald Stahl (no email)
Date: Mon Jun 04 2007 - 20:56:40 EDT

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    > Surely that second quote should be "crap, now macrumors can tell that one
    > person in our office follows them obsessively"? Unless there's
    > publically-available information that indicates that IP address is your
    > CEO's (which is a whole other topic -- publically available rDNS for
    > company-internal IPv6 ranges).
    In addition, IPv6 supports temporary addresses that can change every day.
    If your browser binds to a temporary address, and it changes daily, then
    the anonymizing feature of NAT becomes a whole lot less useful.

    >> NAT is still evil though, the problems it causes operationally are
    >> just plain not worth it.
    > Amen to that.
    I think evil sums up NAT nicely :)

    -Don


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