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Re: NAT etc. (was: Spam Control Considered Harmful)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Sun Nov 2 15:29:57 1997

To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 02 Nov 1997 12:01:43 EST."
             <19971102120143.48545@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us> 
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 12:26:10 -0800
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>

> Yup, it could, but as I noted to Paul, in the cases Sean is advocating,
> the client and the NAT box may not be within the same span of
> administration, either.  IE: no, you may _not_ trust the NAT op.

And as I noted in my reply, the real opportunities for NAT are when one
side of the NAT trusts the NAT and the other side considers it "just 
another public client".

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