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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by Dagger2 on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @04:33PM (#33900592)
This is straight up untrue. The only thing NAT does is change the apparent source address of outbound connections. Inbound connections aren't outbound connections, so it does nothing to them.

NAT is not a substitute for a firewall.

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