> You want to expose services of your home network? You can fiddle around with NAT, hack some proxies and waste a lot of time and energy on this setup. > With

> You want to expose services of your home network? You can fiddle around with NAT, hack some proxies and waste a lot of time and energy on this setup. > With IPv6, you can assign every device in your network a public IPv6 address and decide on your router / firewall, which services to expose publicly. Yeah, I used to think like this. Now I'm older and wiser (grumpier? lazier?) and because with great power comes great responsibility.. and everyone (including me) is running shitty router boxes instead of a perfectly tuned OpenBSD gateway... I think it would be really nice to have it but I'm not sold it will make the internet a safer place, instead it will expose all those IoT devices that can be wormed. I also wanted to self-host stuff at home. Back when I had access to a basement (and no proper connection) running decent hardware was no problem, now in an apartment even a small silent NAS is annyoing enough already. Also I don't have no high hopes the fiber market in Germany will improve to a point where I can reasonably assume to have more than 10/20Mbit of upstream behind a static IP. So yeah, this is a freedom for (from my PoV) a few percent of people, the rest won't bother or it will actively cause problems because nobody understands IPv6 firewalling and stuff. (Not you, dear readers, the masses that are happy if their wifi at home works, at all).