Correction to my own post: The Forum member who first posted about this
topic was Geof Tillotso, not Mahmut Esenler. Sorry about this Mahmut.

Guy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guy Isabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 20:03
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT: IP address appears in header with sender info


> Sorry, but I don't think so. The consequence is not limited to "them", as
I
> see it. Any "inside" user receiving NATed e-mail could look at the mail
> headers and conclude that my IP address is that of the originating server
> and use it to send me e-mail. And my address *is* routable.
>
> Once again, the purpose and intent of RFC 1918 is to regulate the range of
> private IP addresses behind a firewall/router. Going back to the original
> poster (Mahmut Esenler), his NATed internal IP was said to be 192.168.1.63
> which is within the private ranges defined by RFC 1918. My answer as to
why
> he would want to hide it from the headers -- a point that you also
> addressed -- mentioned that no one could trace 192.168.1.63 to any server,
> by definition.
>
> Guy
> --
> Guy Isabel     <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



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