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Comment by rmwaite

5 days ago

IP addresses were always meant to be globally reachable. Of course, NAT has corrupted this - which is why NAT is a scourge.

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hdgvhicv  5 days ago

And so are firewalls?

  • convolvatron  5 days ago

    firewalls are a choice that the enduser makes.

    non-routed prefixes are a limitation imposed by the ISP the the user can't address.

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