On Monday 17 November 2003 4:28 pm, bmcdowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> At the risk of getting OT, what is the point of a proxy for IRC on a
> gateway? I could see it as an anonymizer to bounce IRC off of, but on a
> gateway this would not seem to functionally any different than NAT. What
> am I missing?
I don't think you're missing anything. And whether an IRC proxy would
anonymise connections depends on how the proxy was written, I think (an http
proxy does not necessarily anonymise http connections, for example, and an
smtp proxy (aka mail server) certainly doesn't).
I simply think packet filtering and application proxying are two approaches
to building a firewall, and some people choose one, some people choose the
other. This list is mainly for people using the packet filtering method,
but it doesn't mean it's the only way to do it.
Antony.
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