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Happy 30th birthday to RFC 1631 ("NAT"), the "short term solution" we all rely on (datatracker.ietf.org)

submitted 5 months ago by BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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From the conclusion:

NAT may be a good short term solution to the address depletion and scaling problems. This is because it requires very few changes and can be installed incrementally. NAT has several negative characteristics that make it inappropriate as a long term solution, and may make it inappropriate even as a short term solution. Only implementation and experimentation will determine its appropriateness.

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago

A day old IPv6 thread where there isn't some moron arguing NAT is for security? What's going on here?