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Have you been exposed to an IPv6 address at work? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] kungen@feddit.nu 39 points 3 months ago

Does IPv6 scare you so much that you start craving the monstrosity known as NAT44?

[-] slate@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Idk man, NAT makes a lot of sense once you get used to it. And it's pretty cozy with its firewall features. And somewhat human readable ipv4 addresses are nice.

[-] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 19 points 3 months ago

ISPs putting you behind NAT is not cozy.

They charge extra for a feature called "static IP". But the IP address not being static is not the issue, for me at least. You could host stuff with a dynamic IP back in 2000s/2010s. But no, now you get to share the same IPv4 address with a bunch of other households, unless you pay extra.

[-] slate@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ha, yeah that sucks and I'd absolutely hate it if I were behind a CGNAT. But I believe most ISPs don't do that. None of mine ever have. Just like how most ISPs provide you with an ipv6 address range, but not all. Fact is that crappy ISPs can screw up your network no matter what ip spec you're using.

And I've never heard of a business network being behind an ISP controlled CGNAT. A NAT you control can be nice.