Problems with removing NAT from a network

Dobbins, Roland rdobbins at arbor.net
Thu Jan 6 02:42:20 UTC 2011


On Jan 6, 2011, at 9:38 AM, ML wrote:

> At least not without some painful rebuilds of criticals systems which have these IPs deeply embedded in their configs.

They shouldn't be using IP addresses in configs, they should be using DNS names.  Time to bite the bullet and get this fixed prior to their eventual forced migration to IPv6.

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