[olug] DNS lookups lagging?

[DYNATRON tech]

my router's firewall works just fine.
just in case, i also set my toaster's gateway address to 127.0.0.1



On 8/26/08, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > NAPT is not supposed to "protect" you in any way. It's just a hack to
> > workaround the limitations of the small IPv4 address space. It would be
> > perfectly valid for a NAPT router to attempt to automate port forwarding
> by
> > passing on an unknown port to *all* systems and giving it to the first to
> > ACK
> > it-- which means Nigerians could still get to your toaster without a
> proper
> > firewall in place.
> >
>
> As a quick shrink wrap solution that works for 90-95% of ppl, nat/masq does
> great as a firewall deal .
>
> When everything gets globally aware,  I sincerely hope they do something
> more along the lines of a universal home server that everything talks to
> (or
> similar)... I'd rather secure one device than hundreds.  Who's going to
> provide that single server ? Hah, would I like to be the one :).  $$$$!!!
>
> -Will
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