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Re: Problems with removing NAT from a network


From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 02:42:20 +0000


On Jan 6, 2011, at 9:38 AM, ML wrote:

At least not without some painful rebuilds of criticals systems which have these IPs deeply embedded in their configs.

They shouldn't be using IP addresses in configs, they should be using DNS names.  Time to bite the bullet and get this 
fixed prior to their eventual forced migration to IPv6.

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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid, with millions
of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but
just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

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