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Could you expand on that? What is it about NAT that is an astonishingly horrific idea?
by chris_j 16y ago
Could you expand on that? What is it about NAT that is an astonishingly horrific idea?
- extension 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT_traversal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT_traversal All that to do something that should be as simple as open(some_ip)
- chris_j 16y agoAbsolutely. Being behind NAT at home, it is a pain having to open up ports on the router in order to run anything that requires an inbound connection. At the same time, it is rather comforting to know that making an inbound connection is so hard. What do you think of the suggestion made by the author of the article that, even if we had IPv6 everywhere, we'd still put a lot of networks behind NAT, for reasons of security.
- burgerbrain 16y ago"What do you think of the suggestion made by the author of the article that, even if we had IPv6 everywhere, we'd still put a lot of networks behind NAT, for reasons of security." It's utter bullshit. Stateful firewalls will of course continue to exist; doing Network Address Translation in addition will be completely pointless.