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by urinotherapist 1057 days ago
It was at the start of the IPv6, but then disabled because companies were afraid of IPv6 compatibility with IPv4, which may be used to penetrate firewalls.
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Huh, I had no idea, but I can see that happening. The bigger "nope" that comes to mind is wanting to replace NAT with every device having a public IPv6. Yes a firewall is theoretically superior to NAT, but it matters in practice how stupidly secure NAT is by default.