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Re: Security gain from NAT (was: Re: Cool IPv6 Stuff)

  • From: Nicholas Suan
  • Date: Tue Jun 05 09:42:10 2007
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On 6/5/07, David Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote:


Combined responses to save bandwidth and hassle (and number of times you
have to press 'd'):

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> Just because it's behind NAT, does not mean it's unreahcable from the
internet:

Okay, so exactly how many times do you think we have to say in this thread
that by "NAT/PAT", we mean NAT/PAT as typically implemented in the very
cheapest routers in their default configuration?


Even the cheapest routers have a 'DMZ' configuration option that adds a rule that, by default, sends all the traffic to a particular host. And using that is a fairly common solution to bypassing problems with port forwarding and NAT.