[111460] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Fri Feb 6 03:01:01 2009
To: matthew@eeph.com
From: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:50:20 -0800."
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Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:00:44 +1100
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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In message <498BDDAC.7060405@eeph.com>, Matthew Kaufman writes:
> Mark Andrews wrote:
> > WII's should be able to be directly connected to the network
> > without any firewall. If they can't be then they are broken.
>
> As I'm sure you know, you can tell the difference between an Internet
> evangelist and someone who mans the support lines by how they feel about
> "X should be able to be directly connected to the network without any
> firewall".
>
> "...then they are broken" applied to 4.3 BSD-running VAXen and Sun 3's
> in 1988, and neither the frequency of attacks launched nor the number of
> exploitable bugs in network stacks or network-packet-ingesting
> application programs has gone down since then.
>
> Matthew Kaufman
I still believe that despite having to deal with all these issues at
the time.
Mark
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