alt Hacker News>In the enterprise space, if you mention globally reachable address space, the discussion tends to end pretty fast because “its not secure”. Those people love their NAT.
Was also designed in the early 90s before security was taken seriously.
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icedchai • yesterday at 6:01 PM
The real problem is many "enterprises" have people who don't understand networking. NAT was a solution to IP address depletion. This is not a problem we have with IPv6.
If security is taken seriously, I'm sure they can spend a few minutes and learn how to configure a IPv6 firewall that allows no inbound connections. It's basically the simplest configuration possible.
> Was also designed in the early 90s before security was taken seriously.
True, but since then it has transformed into “no one gets in because we have _private_ IP addresses”…