On 07/09/2006 08:46, "Conall O'Brien" <conall+ilug at conall.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:09:36PM IST, Timothy Murphy
> <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> incoherently babbled:
>>> As a matter of interest, how many machines do you have at home?
>> How do you get public IP addresses?
>> Are you very rich?
>> You don't have to be rich to get public IPs, thanks in part to CIDR
> delegation rules. A lot of Irish ISPs will easily give you public
> IPs. I got a /26 from IBB a while ago for a (then) one time fee of
> 200 euro.
>>> I don't intend ever going back to using NAT, since I like being able to
> setup aa random machine I'm using for something so I can ssh into it
> externally.
OK, and what's wrong with routing the particular protocol (sshd in this
case) from your router?
In a production (business) environment I can understand why NAT is evil, but
in a HAN? How many machines do you need to ssh into?
What's wrong with ssh'ing into one, then using that to stage to the others?
Surely the more boxen you have on the InTarWeb means more security risks?
More firewalls = more PITA.
Just curious from a security POV.
Conor,
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