Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?
Dobbins, Roland
rdobbins at arbor.net
Thu Jan 13 04:47:05 UTC 2011
On Mar 21, 2007, at 5:41 AM, Tarig Ahmed wrote:
> Security guy told me is not correct to assign public ip to a server, it should have private ip for security reasons.
He's wrong.
> Is it true that NAT can provide more security?
No, it makes things worse from an availability perspective. Servers should never be NATted or placed behind a stateful firewall.
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