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Re:So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations by oasisbob on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @07:35PM (#16917600)
Because NAT is an abominable hack with significant technical and administrative overhead.

My home is not intended to be a public space. But, it has a unique address, just like any other bar or restaurant in the area. Being able to locate it with a unique identifier is valuable, even if I don't intend for my living room to be publicly accessible.

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Re:So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations by smsm42 on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @08:31PM (#16917860)
> Because NAT is an abominable hack with significant technical and administrative overhead.

Agreed. But you can use private networks without NAT. In fact, 99% of traffic in the private network doesn't need NAT. Only outside traffic does, and only that which can't use proxies etc. - which is pretty small amount of overall traffic, I think.

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Re:So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations by throwaway2048 on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @08:56PM (#16917954)
attempting to proxy traffic like that is an even more massive mess, you have a solution in search of a problem here.
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