[190513] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NAT firewall for IPv6?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Tue Jul 5 18:55:17 2016
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From: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 17:55:06 -0500
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My how the world has changed!
On 7/1/2016 21:28, Edgar Carver wrote:
> Hello NANOG community. I was directed here by our network administrator
> since she is on vacation.
I am Old School, I guess. In my day Step One would be "Fire the
administrator." The job is by nature a 24 X 7 X 52 job and "On Call"
the rest of the time. "Vacation" is never a reason to leave your
assignment insecure.
"NAT-based firewall"? Really?
How long has the consultant been out of business?
Luckily, I minored in Computer Science so I have
> some familiarity.
I have no idea how I fat-fingered a "send" at this point/
I started to write that you have an emergency on your hands and you need
to focus your attention of finding a person or firm that can take charge
and fix problems you don't even know about yet.
A "Dear Abby" approach is going do way more harm than good.
--
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by
its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole
life believing that it is stupid."
--Albert Einstein
From Larry's Cox account.
