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From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
I am confused... I don't understand your comment.
It is regularly alleged, on this mailing list, that NAT is bad *because it violates the end-to-end principle of the Internet*, where each host is a full-fledged host, able to connect to any other host to perform transactions. We see it now alleged that the opposite is true: that a laptop, say, like mine, which runs Linux and postfix, and does not require a smarthost to deliver mail to a remote server *is a bad actor* *precisely because it does that* (in attempting to send mail directly to a domain's MX server) *from behind a NAT router*, and possibly different ones at different times. I find these conflicting reports very conflicting. Either the end-to-end principle *is* the Prime Directive... or it is *not*. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274