On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 10:49 -0500, Andrew McNabb wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 08:58:59AM -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote: > > > > If I was designing the BYU network, I would have made public address > > translate to private addresses, and split the DNS. That way the world > > would see servers on the 128.187. addresses, but the same servers from > > within the byu network would see the 10.x addresses. That makes routing > > a lot more sane. > > > > That's the way we did it in the CS Department, and although it works > pretty well, it's still a headache. > > If I were designing the BYU network, I would give everything 128.187 > addresses, and I would use a novel tool called a firewall to limit > outside access to private machines. I guess that makes me a heretic.
Heretic, maybe, but it also makes you sane. NAT is an evil scourge upon our Internet and I long for the day it is eradicated. Corey /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
