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> "Charles Sprickman" <[email protected]> > NAT has it's place, and we have many happy customers that are quite > pleased with their NAT'd connections; some simple, some fancy. NATs are a band-aid. > What irks me more than NAT are crappy protocols like FTP and H.323 that > make too many assumptions about how much of my machine I am willing to > expose in order to communicate using these protocols. FTP was designed for ARPANET, H.323 was designed to work over ANY packet network. Neither of them were designed for TCP/IP in particular. They don't break the end-to-end design principles though. Neither do network games, chat tools, and other peer-to-peer protocols that run in elected-server or server-to-server modes. The fact is that I can write an Internet-compliant application in about two minutes that will break every NAT ever sold, simply because they don't have a proxy for the protocol. NATs violate fundamental Internet principles. They were broken from the start.
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