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Thank NAT for that. I wonder how many hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden overhead it costs us annually by making peer to peer unreliable and complicating

by api 6y ago

Thank NAT for that. I wonder how many hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden overhead it costs us annually by making peer to peer unreliable and complicating everything. Then throw in all the power consumed by all the cloud infrastructure we wouldn’t need. “Null” in languages like Java has been called a trillion dollar mistake. NAT is probably worse.

zepto 6y ago
Without NAT we’d have run out of ip addresses long ago.
- tinus_hn 6y ago
  So we would have transitioned to IPv6 already; it’s not necessarily a bad thing. We’re going to run out regardless.
- api 6y ago
  Good. It would have forced the V6 upgrade, which is the right thing and makes this problem go away forever. It would have been cheaper overall too.