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Fascinating. Me mentioning NAT as a positive (blocks all incoming ports) prompts people to reply with a word salad that contains "crappy" and "corrupted". Fac
by lynx23 2y ago
Fascinating. Me mentioning NAT as a positive (blocks all incoming ports) prompts people to reply with a word salad that contains "crappy" and "corrupted". Fact is, NAT is being used in almost every apartment LAN setup since, what, 30 years? Its no surprise that people grew used to the implicit port block. And therefore its no surprise that when switching to IPv6, some people will discover the hard way that they now need to do extra work.
But hey, why think about it rationally, if you can throw crappy and corrupted around?
- globular-toast 2y agoIt's because people saying stuff like "NAT good, IPv6 bad" makes many people afraid of v6. It's part of the problem. Any decent gear will come with a firewall with sane defaults and most people won't know about it, just like with NAT today. If you asked someone to configure a router from scratch (ie. one that came with insane defaults) then NAT would be more difficult to set up.
- lynx23 2y agoOh, the touchy-feely CS industry. I miss the old days when feelings didn't really count. I dont care if not-quite-a-whole-sentence of mine makes people afraid of things they dont know enough about.