mh (RE: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008)
Joseph S D Yao
jsdy at center.osis.gov
Fri Jul 8 22:20:04 UTC 2005
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:24:22PM +0100, Sean Doran wrote:
> On 7 Jul, 2005, at 21:10, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >Real firewalls pass inbound traffic because a
> >state table entry exists. NATs do the same thing, with nasty
> >side-effects. There is no added security from the header-mangling.
>
> To which Len Bosak quipped a few years ago: "If you don't know its
> name, you can't curse it".
Sure you can. For a human entity, get a few hairs from its head or nail
clippings. For a network entity, get the bits of its externally visible
IP address.
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Joe Yao
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