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amarantlast Saturday at 6:20 AM1 replyview on HN

I really don't get why people hate on IPv6.

I'm sure someone will fuck this up for us, but IPv6 should at least in theory enable us to be rid of NAT. Anyone who has ever done NAT traversal for peer discovery is having wet dreams about that future!


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speedgooselast Saturday at 7:09 AM

I prefer NAT over IPv6. Mostly because NAT is more reliable over time.

Sure NAT traversal for peer discovery doesn’t sound pleasant, but routing issues that no one understands or care about is worse.