Reply to post: Re: And who told you I want to be measured?

IPv4 apocalypse means we just can't measure the internet any more

Neil Barnes Silver badge
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Re: And who told you I want to be measured?

I'm just wondering if the chainsaw will have an IPv6 address...

As others have said, there seems no rational reason why a domestic - or indeed a commercial - firewall can't be v6 on the outside and NAT v4 on the inside. There seems to my admittedly self-centred privacy-minded viewpoint exactly no advantages to v6 end-to-endness other than endpoint availability - which is a largely solved problem by NAT as far as I can see.

One might even postulate a v4 DMZ and a v6 DMZ sticking out of the same box, for those amazingly rare occasions when we might want to run an internet facing service.

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