Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread Ed Gerck
Keith Moore wrote: > > | at least in those days, gateway proponents didn't insist that people > > | shouldn't include email addresses in the bodies of their messages. > > > > You miss the point that including "GRECO::MARYK" as an email address > > in a USENET message is about as useful as inclu

Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread Keith Moore
> | Nowadays people often act as if NATs were the way the Internet was supposed > | to work, and that it's the applications and the users of those applications > | who are broken if they want a network that supports a global address space. > > Well, the genie is out of the bottle, and if NAT is w

Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:11:12 +0100, Harald Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I liked even better the horror story of the gateway that tried. > until someone wrote "this gateway translates [EMAIL PROTECTED] into > [EMAIL PROTECTED]", and it came out to the recipient as > "this gateway tr

Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread Harald Alvestrand
At 12:42 22/01/2001 -0500, John Stracke wrote: >There was even an analogy to NAT's "addresses embedded in the application data >stream" problem: if you had an address in your .signature, the gateway >couldn't >translate it, so the person receiving your message saw an address they >couldn't >use.

Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread Sean Doran
| Nowadays people often act as if NATs were the way the Internet was supposed | to work, and that it's the applications and the users of those applications | who are broken if they want a network that supports a global address space. Well, the genie is out of the bottle, and if NAT is winning

Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread Sean Doran
Valdis Kletnieks writes: | On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:53:30 +0100, Sean Doran said: | > Nobody really constrains protocols from carrying a local IP address | > around any more than anyone constrains from putting local addresses | > into a text message. It's just that communicating by naively replyin

Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:53:30 +0100, Sean Doran said: > Nobody really constrains protocols from carrying a local IP address > around any more than anyone constrains from putting local addresses > into a text message. It's just that communicating by naively replying > to such an embedded address i

Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread Keith Moore
> | at least in those days, gateway proponents didn't insist that people > | shouldn't include email addresses in the bodies of their messages. > > You miss the point that including "GRECO::MARYK" as an email address > in a USENET message is about as useful as including 10.0.0.26 in an > IP heade

Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread Sean Doran
Keith Moore writes: | at least in those days, gateway proponents didn't insist that people | shouldn't include email addresses in the bodies of their messages. You miss the point that including "GRECO::MARYK" as an email address in a USENET message is about as useful as including 10.0.0.26 in an

Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread Keith Moore
> > I remember when the email > > network was a heterogeneous network consisting of UUCP, BITNET, DECnet, > > SMTP, X.400, and a few other things thrown in. It "worked", sort of, > > but we had all kinds of problems with the translations at the boundaries, > > with addresses from one network leak

Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread Matt Holdrege
At 08:53 AM 1/22/2001, Henning G. Schulzrinne wrote: >Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > The ISOC isn't a trade association, which is where such seals > > of approval (and the associated b*ke-offs) tend to come from. > >Maybe the IPv6 consortium or whatever they call themselves could do >this, since IPv

BGP AS

2001-01-22 Thread Dave Robinson
Hi all, What do I need to get an AS on the Internet? Money, a certain number of IP's, the right ISP? Does anyone have specifics? Thanks, Dave

Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread John Stracke
Keith Moore wrote: > I remember when the email > network was a heterogeneous network consisting of UUCP, BITNET, DECnet, > SMTP, X.400, and a few other things thrown in. It "worked", sort of, > but we had all kinds of problems with the translations at the boundaries, > with addresses from one ne

Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread Henning G. Schulzrinne
Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > > - without "transparent" caches > > Do you mean interception proxies, in WREC terminology? Yes. > > > - no port restrictions > > And no protocol type restrictions > > > - no NATs > > How about adding IPv6 support? Good idea. > > > > (and whatever other abom

Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Henning Schulzrinne wrote: ... > However, I think it's high time to establish a "Good Housekeeping" seal > for "real" (pure, unadultared, GM-free, ...) Internet service, i.e., > > - without "transparent" caches Do you mean interception proxies, in WREC terminology? > - no port restrictions An

Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Keith Moore wrote: > > > The IETF has done it's job with 6to4, but like you said we can't force > > people to deploy it. But let's stop and think about 6to4. Aren't some of > > the same "tricks" or ALG's that are planned to make applications work > > with IPv4 NAT, applicable to 6to4? If so, then

Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread Daniel Senie
Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > you might check out the rather sprited discussion during the plenary at > ietf49... > > the official proceeding will be up shortly on the ietf website, video of > the event is at: > > http://videolab.uoregon.edu/events/ietf/ietf49.html What can be heard on the audio (so

Re: New Internet Service

2001-01-22 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
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Re: New Internet Service

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Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Keith Moore typed: >>> The IETF has done it's job with 6to4, but like you said we can't force >>> people to deploy it. But let's stop and think about 6to4. Aren't some of >>> the same "tricks" or ALG's that are planned to make applications work >>> with IPv4