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Re:IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment by lmm on Monday January 04, 2016 @12:30PM (#10836926)
> And applications punching holes via APIs does exist in uPnP and NAT-PMP, but isn't that the same thing as what you dismissed above as a hack?

I think applications communicating with firewalling is not a hack, but applications communicating with routing is a hack. E.g. I have two friends who share a house (and therefore an internet connection) and I can play a game with one or other of them (via uPnP) but not both at the same time. With IPv6 + uPnP (assuming that's supported), they'd still have the same firewalling they have now, but I'd be able to play a game with both of them. No?

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Re:IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10% deployment by rlpb on Thursday January 07, 2016 @08:47PM (#10862344)
Sorry, I've only just seen this. I agree with you on this point, yes. But I think you have a pretty rare and specific case. The more general cry of "IPv6 fixes NAT!" incorrectly expects much more than this, I think.
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