Andrew McGlashan
<[email protected]>
writes:

> for instance a box running ROOTer [1] (a version of DD-WRT) [...] I am
> of the view that the public IP (or carrier grade NAT IP), should not
> be public facing directly on equipment that /may/ have any kind of
> vulnerable component [...] Linux.

Um, DD-WRT isn't a magically invincible Linux distro just because it
targets embedded systems.  I have no cite, but ISTR hearing about the
DD-WRT developers releasing a stable release that allowed full admin
access by default from one of their for-profit customers' IP addresses.

And their response was "oh that was a mistake, but it's totally fine to
keep running it, because I happen to know that address isn't in use at
the moment."

That said, if you have >1 host it's reasonable to put them all behind a
single bastion.

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