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Re:Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme by mrweasel on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:19PM (#37919286)
I recently switch ISP and the new ISP gives you an IPv6 address and have their router just hand out IPv6 addresses on your LAN as well. It generally works really really well. The only weirdness I've seen is in Firefox when using DoH and IPv6. Sites like Google or Wikipedia just worked, while others simply doesn't and because it's DoH in the browser, you can't actually debug the issue all that well. I believe it may be tied to the combination of a specific DoH service and my ISP, but I haven't tested it fully yet.

Why would you want to use NAT with IPv6 though?

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Re:Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme by starttoaster on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:29PM (#37919443)
> Why would you want to use NAT with IPv6 though?

I imagine it being far simpler for the average person to adopt IPv6 without much research if all of their current firewall rules, including port forwards, work exactly the same as they did with IPv4. You may not need those port forwards without NATs, but do you trust the firewalls on your servers to disallow accessing other ports from outside your local network?

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