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   Victor Sudakov to All   
   NAT   
   25 Jan 19 23:46:26   
   
   Dear All,   
      
   With the proliferation of IPv6 I hear more and more often that NAT is a great   
   security mechanism because it hides your intranet infrastructure from   
   outsiders, and how unfit IPv6 is for enterprise networks because it lacks the   
   notion of NAT which makes IPv6 networks so very very much insecure.   
      
   Do you have good conter-arguments?   
      
   Indeed, in some corporate networks I've seen, the use of the RFC1918 address   
   space is written into security guidelines as a requirement.   
      
   Then again, as I come to think of it, even if your IPv6 intranet has a good   
   firewall on the border, your internal network addresses are still exposed to   
   the Internet. Is that a problem?   
      
   Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN   
   --- GoldED+/BSD 1.1.5-b20160322-b20160322   
    * Origin: Ulthar (2:5005/49)   

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