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Today in our newest take on "older technology is better": why NAT rules!

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[-] dan@upvote.au 2 points 2 years ago

NAT is, and has always been, an ugly hack. Why would anyone like it?

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Doesn’t that mean private non-routable subnets like 10.x or 192.x have always been a hack?

[-] dan@upvote.au 1 points 2 years ago

No, because there's use cases for systems that aren't connected to the internet. Also, public IPs can be dynamic, so you might not want to rely on them internally.

[-] orangeboats@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Private addresses don't necessitate NAT. IPv6 also allows private addresses in the form of fd00::/8, like fd00:face:b00b:1::1.

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