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Re:Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don'... by eknkc on Monday August 05, 2024 @07:47AM (#41160332)
Hey they are inventing NAT. Nice.
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Re:Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don'... by zaphoyd on Monday August 05, 2024 @08:36AM (#41160751)
NAT for airline flight numbers would fix this problem and improve security to boot!
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Re:Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don'... by kqr on Monday August 05, 2024 @10:36AM (#41161745)
Wait, how are they doing that? My mental idea of NAT is that it dyanmically links (address × port) pairs to local addresses. What would be the "port" in the case of flight numbers?
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Re:Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don'... by BillTthree on Monday August 05, 2024 @11:26AM (#41162258)
UTC Date + Time of flightplan takeoff
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Re:Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don'... by kqr on Monday August 05, 2024 @02:00PM (#41163691)
If that would be usable and could be assigned at sufficient precision the flight number would not be necessary at all!
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Re:Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don'... by kevin_thibedeau on Monday August 05, 2024 @10:56AM (#41161962)
origin,destination tuples.
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