[LINK] There goes the neighbourhood...

[Kim Holburn]

On 2011/May/12, at 1:56 AM, Karl Auer wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 01:39 +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> Well the problem is that the real issue here is not how difficult it
>> is to make an inbound connection through NAT, it's how difficult it is
>> to make an inbound connection through a firewall and that problem is
>> not going away in a perfect IPv6 world.  I doubt we're ever going to
>> go to a world with no firewalls.
> 
> It's not hard to make an inbound connection through a firewall at all.
> Provided I (the network operator) want that connection to be possible.
> 
> NAT just stops everything, as a non-switch-offable side-effect of its
> multiplexing function.

And yet skype, it works, despite that.

>> Also I wonder NAT is just going to go away even if some of the
>> original reasons for it are.
> 
> Indeed. We can but hope.

I don't see people giving up their hard won privacy.  Especially not these days.

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