[136783] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Feb 4 21:23:27 2011
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 21:23:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <F05D77A9631CAE4097F7B69095F1B06F039104@EX02.drtel.lan>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
---- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Johnson" <bjohnson@drtel.com>
> This is exactly the problem we have. Some people have no perspective
> on what the Internet is and it's real power. I've met too many people
> who claim to be "in the know" on these topics that don't understand
> that NAT was designed for address preservation. That was the
> only/primary/driving real reason for its development. The other
> "features" were side effects and are not intended to be solutions to
> production issues.
"[were] not intended to be solutions to production issues" !=
"are not being depended on now".
> If I use a wrench to hammer nails, it may work fine, but when It comes
> to certain nails it may have issues. I'm using the tool for the wrong
> purpose. This is the folly of NAT.
Perhaps. But that's not important, now.
Cheers,
-- jr 'Good luck. We're all counting on you' a
