• truthfultemporarily@feddit.org
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    29 days ago

    I think NAT is one reason why the internet is so centralized. If everyone had a static IP you could do all sorts of decentralized cool stuff.

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      29 days ago

      Everyone having a static IP is a privacy nightmare.

      There’s a reason the recommendation in the standard for ipv6 had to be amended (it whatever the mechanic was) so that generated local suffixes aren’t static. Before that, we were essentially globally identifiable because just the second half of your v6 address was static.