[134850] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Wed Jan 12 12:26:21 2011
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:25:30 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 1/12/2011 11:16 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> 140 million compromised PC's, most of them behind a NAT, can't be wrong. :)
And yet blaster type worms are less common now, and I still get the
occasional reinfection reported where a computer shop installs XP
pre-patch with a public IP. A simple stateful firewall or NAT router
would stop that and allow them to finish patching the OS. There is
always a new attack vector.
Jack
