[125661] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Tue Apr 20 20:44:14 2010
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:38:40 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <6784.1271805348@localhost>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> (Yes, defense in depth is a Good Thing. But that external firewall isn't
> doing squat for your security if it actually accepts uPNP from inside.)
In this case we are referring to uPNP functionality at a LSN level. uPNP
as it sits will not work at all, and security in this case refers not to
the customer but to the ISP's router/server performing this service.
Jack
