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On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > It's not the same thing. RFC 1918 and martian addresses aren't supposed > to be present on the internet, but aren't automatically harmful. Having > services that are explicitly labeled for internal use be visible to the > rest of the world is potentially very harmful. > I think I'm missing something, how would a locally managed firewall (local to the end station) not permit this same scenario? (without the added confusion of private/public ports)
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