Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

Jay Mitchell jay at miscreant.org
Wed Jan 12 16:57:40 UTC 2011


Tell your security guy he should be looking for another job.

On 21/03/2007, at 8:41 PM, Tarig Ahmed <tariq198487 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> We have wide range of Public IP addresses, I tried to assign public ip directly to a server behined firewall( in DMZ), but I have been resisted.
> Security guy told me is not correct to assign public ip to a server, it should have private ip for security reasons.
> 
> Is it true that NAT can provide more security?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tarig Yassin Ahmed
> 
> 




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