On Friday 21 May 2004 23:56, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I suspect that he had a NAT firewall which forwarded all incoming port 25 
> connections to his server.
> 
> Naturally, everyone who would connect to the server would have, from the 
> server's perspective, the firewall's IP address, to which he granted 
> relaying privileges.

That would mean that he was doing Source NAT from outside to his internal 
network, right?  That would seem to me to be a *very* bad idea and a really 
misconfigured firewall.   Port forwarding should be Destination NAT and leave 
the source ip address alone.  Or am I missing something?  

Jeff Jansen


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