Re:India is leading IPv6 migration with 61.67% adoption
by nsizx on Sunday August 15, 2021 @11:55AM
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I didn't mention NAT at all. Practically all multiplayer games use a central server. It's impossible to know the IP addresses of your peers.
Re:India is leading IPv6 migration with 61.67% adoption
by billytetrud on Sunday August 15, 2021 @12:36PM
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Nothing about IPv6 prevents continuing to do that when it makes sense (eg to prevent cheaters from dosing their opponents).
With NAT, you can still receive DoS attacks, still have your game networking exploited, and still be geolocated. The only remotely security-related benefit is that instead of your ports being exposed to the wild internet, they're exposed to your router which is more of a side-effect rather than an actual benefit. Its not a reason to not bother having a firewall.