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Re: Problems with removing NAT from a network


From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 10:44:19 +0000


On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:

No, it hasn't always been a Bad Idea. 

Yes, it has.  There're lots of issues with embedding IP addresses directly into apps and so forth which have nothing to 
do with NAT.

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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.

                          -- Alan Kay



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