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I set up IPv6 at home and realized every single device in my house got a globally routable IP by default and was confused for a second. Oh! This is how the Int
by mbac32768 1y ago
I set up IPv6 at home and realized every single device in my house got a globally routable IP by default and was confused for a second.
Oh! This is how the Internet was supposed to be!
Remember, we only even bother with NAT bullshit in the first place because there aren't enough IPv4 addresses.
- wink 1y agoThe difference between "has a routable IP" and "this should be routed" is exactly the problem for 99% of the population. I'm not saying NAT is a good thing but at least it's one more thing from preventing network shares of everyone's pictures on shodan. I'm also not saying it's a good protection, but it's not zero. Maybe if ipv6 had been the default since the beginning, then OSes and default configs would have been written in a better way.
- mbac32768 1y agoI really don't see why we wouldn't end up in a world where home routers had a firewall by default and the user (or their agents) would open up ports as necessary. Still like NAT, but better.