alt Hacker News> Of all the things to regulate why bother with this one? It's not like IPv6 is better for the environment or useful to the consumer.
If I'm with a small-time ISP that has to use CG-NAT because they don't have the cash to buy/lease enough IPv4 addresses to give one to each CPE WAN interface, then using things like Xbox/PS multiplayer/P2P gaming is no longer possible. Want to host a Minecraft server? Too bad.
Are those two use-cases "useful to the consumer"?
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jjmarr • today at 3:19 PM
I did port forwarding in 2010 for a Minecraft server. Basically every router supports it.
It wasn't meaningfully more difficult than setting up the server.
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You are right, but ISPs will tell you that you're not allowed to host servers anyway. Most have it in the AUP.