[olug] DNS lookups lagging?

[Kevin]

But that's going to take some specialized setup of your DHCP server,
more than I'd care to do. I'd rather have the device performing
translation also function as a firewall, since it would take extra
effort to produce a result that I don't want to set it up the way you
describe.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:50 PM, DYNATRON tech <dynatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> my router's firewall works just fine.
> just in case, i also set my toaster's gateway address to 127.0.0.1
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> On 8/26/08, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > NAPT is not supposed to "protect" you in any way. It's just a hack to
>> > workaround the limitations of the small IPv4 address space. It would be
>> > perfectly valid for a NAPT router to attempt to automate port forwarding
>> by
>> > passing on an unknown port to *all* systems and giving it to the first to
>> > ACK
>> > it-- which means Nigerians could still get to your toaster without a
>> proper
>> > firewall in place.
>> >
>>
>> As a quick shrink wrap solution that works for 90-95% of ppl, nat/masq does
>> great as a firewall deal .
>>
>> When everything gets globally aware,  I sincerely hope they do something
>> more along the lines of a universal home server that everything talks to
>> (or
>> similar)... I'd rather secure one device than hundreds.  Who's going to
>> provide that single server ? Hah, would I like to be the one :).  $$$$!!!
>>
>> -Will
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