Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 02:22:43 EST, Keith Moore said:
> it is desirable that it be such a network.  I remember when the email 
> network was a heterogeneous network consisting of UUCP, BITNET, DECnet, 
> SMTP, X.400, and a few other things thrown in.  It "worked", sort of, 
> but we had all kinds of problems with the translations at the boundaries,

Gee thanks Keith... you bring back painful memories of running one of
the bitnet-internet gates. :)

Every few weeks, I'm *still* seeing things sniffing around for our Bitnet
gateway.  The interesting part is that the gateway (vtbit.cc.vt.edu) isn't
in the DNS anymore, hasn't been for close to 18 months, and I only *see*
these screw-ups if they manage to find the machine that *used* to be the
*unpublizised* MX front-end for the gateway.  

Let's stamp out NAT, *now* - before it becomes too entrenched and we can
never get rid of it.  We don't need that sort of "worked" again.

				Valdis Kletnieks
				Operating Systems Analyst
				Virginia Tech