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Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting


From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon () eiv com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 20:49:48 -0400

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:18:27PM -0700, Jon Mansey wrote:

Erm, I thought napster worked OK through NAT...

Not if both sides are using NAT.  And, since what we're talking about here is
getting EVERYBODY to use it, it thus stands to reason that this would be the
case.

NAT is a kludge.  IP was made to use addresses, anything else is a kludge and
always will be.

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