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Because NAT is an abominable hack with significant technical and administrative overhead. My home is not intended to be a public space. But, it has a unique ad
by oasisbob 9y ago
Because NAT is an abominable hack with significant technical and administrative overhead.
My home is not intended to be a public space. But, it has a unique address, just like any other bar or restaurant in the area. Being able to locate it with a unique identifier is valuable, even if I don't intend for my living room to be publicly accessible.
- smsm42 9y ago> Because NAT is an abominable hack with significant technical and administrative overhead. Agreed. But you can use private networks without NAT. In fact, 99% of traffic in the private network doesn't need NAT. Only outside traffic does, and only that which can't use proxies etc. - which is pretty small amount of overall traffic, I think.
- throwaway2048 9y agoattempting to proxy traffic like that is an even more massive mess, you have a solution in search of a problem here.