8 Jul
2005
8 Jul
'05
6:20 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:24:22PM +0100, Sean Doran wrote:
On 7 Jul, 2005, at 21:10, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
Real firewalls pass inbound traffic because a state table entry exists. NATs do the same thing, with nasty side-effects. There is no added security from the header-mangling.
To which Len Bosak quipped a few years ago: "If you don't know its name, you can't curse it".
Sure you can. For a human entity, get a few hairs from its head or nail clippings. For a network entity, get the bits of its externally visible IP address. -- Joe Yao ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is not an official statement of OSIS Center policies.