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    iSCSI: SendTargets & NAT



    Another concern that came up in looking into TargetAddress is that having
    explicit (numeric) IP addresses in a protocol is considered bad, since it
    breaks in the presence of NAT. DNS names are bad enough, but you can play
    games with local DNS to get around them.
    
    Since these elements are configured by an administrator, I'm not going to
    suggest we get rid of the literal IP syntax.
    
    Instead I'd like to propose another change to the TargetAddress entries.
    I'd like to suggest a syntax which makes the IP address optional and you
    give just a port. This syntax would represent something like a daemon
    listening on INADDR_ANY or its IPv6 equivalent.
    
    I'm not sure what would be a good syntax. Just ":<tcp-port>" (":3260")? Or
    "*:<tcp-port>"?
    
    In terms of the draft, the suggestion is
    
         Followed by zero or more address keys of the form:
    
           TargetAddress=<hostname-or-ipaddress>[:<tcp-port>],<portal-
             group-tag>
    
    be described so that <hostname-or-ipaddress> can be something which
    represents all IP addresses on this host.
    
    Obviously this would be something that an admin could choose to include or
    not include. I'd like us to add a way though for an admin to be able to
    specify it.
    
    Take care,
    
    Bill
    
    


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