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Re:All quiet in the IPv4 Internet? by wtbob on Thursday September 15, 2016 @08:51PM (#12511161)
> Its been a few years since I left but when I was there all hardwired devices had a public IP address.

Which is, of course, how it's supposed to be. I used to host a website from my dorm room.

Every device on the Internet should have a public IP address!

Re:All quiet in the IPv4 Internet? by Walf on Friday September 16, 2016 @07:22AM (#12513227)
> Every device that wants to be on the Internet should have a public IP address!

We don't need every network-connected device, with all their flaws accessible to the world. Unfortunately, IPv6 will not help us there.

Re:All quiet in the IPv4 Internet? by XorNot on Friday September 16, 2016 @09:23AM (#12513768)
That's what firewalls are for.

In a perfect world you'd get your ipv6 prefix from your ISP, and have your firewall white list specific outbound suffix addresses.

If you need topology privacy you'd shuffle your /64 every once in a while.

Re:All quiet in the IPv4 Internet? by pbhjpbhj on Friday September 16, 2016 @09:09AM (#12513694)
Doesn't IPv6 have local addresses that aren't routed externally, like ::1.