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From: Vaeth <vaeth@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:29:53
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0809161726340.19084@wmax001.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de
1 On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:49:36 +0200 (CEST), Vaeth wrote:
4 >
5 > > It is always better to have a port not open than to rely on a router
6 > > to "close" it apparently.
7 >
8 > If you are using NAT on the router, you have to explicitly forward that
9 > port somewhere for it to work. [...]
10
11 Except that this is not completely true: See some of the many articles
12 in the net which explain why NAT is not a security feature. A quick google
13 search gave e.g. http://www.nexusuk.org/articles/2005/03/12/nat_security/

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