Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition...
by aflag on Monday March 06, 2023 @05:59PM
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Most people don’t need it, so that’s why they don’t want it. OP didn’t say people object to it, just that it’s not something most people cares about.
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Re:I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition...
by hot_gril on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:01PM
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It's fairly common to want P2P connections, even if the users aren't aware of it. A lot of online games rely on NAT traversal, sometimes automatically picking a host based on whoever's NAT it can get past. I don't remember the details, but even the Nintendo Switch cares about NAT.
A lot of would-be P2P applications end up using a relay server to get around that restriction, which adds significant cost and latency. Sure it's a well-established workaround by now, but it'd be nice not to rely on it.