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Sorry, but under no circumstances should an ISP router auto route internal computers from the network. Thats just going to expose so many internal services, mos
by tomjen3 2y ago
Sorry, but under no circumstances should an ISP router auto route internal computers from the network. Thats just going to expose so many internal services, most consumers wouldn't even know they were running in the first place.
If we are to have a transition to IPv6, and I am very much in favour of this, then by all means make the addresses be globally routable, but force people to select the ports and addresses to be shared in their router. Otherwise we end up with another mess ala "open wifi".
- SirGiggles 2y agoIt doesn't need to, IPv6 has unique local addresses which is are non-globally reachable; I recall those had it's own can of worms depending on deployment but it's an option for private, local addresses. EDIT: I also understood the GP comment to be getting around the problem of long IPv6 addresses and not actually making every machine globally accessible.
- unethical_ban 2y agoI didn't think I suggested an open firewall. Just as today people have to adjust NAT as kind of an implicit inbound policy, a proper home IPv6 router defaults to drop for inbound traffic.
- immibis 2y agoThat's literally the ISP's and router's job: get packets from A to B. Now, a home router should probably have a stateful firewall that's on by default, but that's a different matter.
- icedchai 2y ago"Auto routing" is fine, as long as there is a firewall.