Re: Risks of patched servers behind de-randomizing NAT
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> Can we get a reading from Those Who Know about how likely it is that
> BadGuys can trick a client inside such a firewall to facilitate an attack
> against an internal recursive server (said server can query through the
> firewall).[/color]
Hey, all you guys inside the firewall--you should totally click on this
hilarious URL! [url]http://www.evilwebpage.tld[/url]
It's pretty much that easy. Someone clicks, queries go out, answers
come back--and some of the answers are going to be poisoned.
A NAT router that obscures unpredictable source ports and reassigns
them to predictable ones is eliminating the best defense we have.
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Evan Hunt -- [email]evan_hunt@isc.org[/email]
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.