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NAT is great. I can think of no problems caused by NAT. I can immediately think of my experiences with IPv6 and all loss of privacy.
by alacode 3y ago
NAT is great. I can think of no problems caused by NAT. I can immediately think of my experiences with IPv6 and all loss of privacy.
- orangeboats 3y agoCan't tell whether this is trolling or serious. Breaking the end-to-end principle has had profound effects on the Internet as a whole for the last 2 decades, centralization being the most obvious one.
- teddyh 3y agoI used to keep a copy of this paper with me: <https://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoend.pdf https://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoe...>
- alacode 3y agoTrolling? No. NAT breaks something? No. IPv6 breaks privacy at a minimum and probably opens our devices to security issues. IPv6 is what's broken.
- wredcoll 3y agoThat's not how any of this works.
- orangeboats 3y agoCitation needed on "breaking privacy". You have at least 2^64 IPv6 addresses per household, cycle through them and stop worrying about IP tracking. Oh, and I can give citation on how NAT breaks something. Until the day we can magically remove application-level gateways[0] I consider NAT a fundamentally broken hack. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-level_gateway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-level_gateway
- stavros 3y agoI can't tell if this is sarcasm or another "I like NAT because I can't be bothered to deploy a firewall rule" comment.
- alacode 3y agoI said nothing about a firewall. I use firewalls everywhere. I use NAT. What I don't use is IPv6.