[135027] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Jan 14 14:49:19 2011
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:49:07 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <72CA680B-D526-4C5F-8E0C-A124AA2EFC7F@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/14/2011 1:43 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Ah, but, the point here is that NAT actually serves as an enabling
> technology for part of the attack he is describing. Another example
> where NAT can and is a security negative. The fact that you refuse
> to acknowledge these is exactly what you were accusing me of
> doing in my previous emails.
>
Explain how it acts as an enabler.
Jack