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A comment on RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990). Parent comment

Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990) by BlueTemplar on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:48PM (#26072864)
> NAT and firewalls weren't used much at all and servers would just sit on public IPs.

All 3 of these are more or less coming back with IPv6.

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Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990) by lamontcg on Friday February 12, 2021 @01:30AM (#26111234)
AFAIK NAT goes away but firewall don't (but then firewalls have a horrible fail-open problem since all IPs are routable).
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