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kstrauser • yesterday at 12:11 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> Most security conscious operators would only allow IPv4 instead of IPv6.

I strongly disagree. That's obsolete knowledge, thrown around by people who want to be considered security conscious but haven't actually updated their knowledge in many years. A statement with similar implications might be "security conscious operators require their users to rotate their passwords monthly", which is what a lot of people use to think a decade ago, and now what it really communicates is that you're talking to a dinosaur.


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asdf88990 • yesterday at 2:48 AM

But IPv6 is complex and inherently globally accessible. Yes, NAT IS not supposed to be a firewall but it works like one nonetheless in many cases.

IPv6 will never replace IPv4 because it is a different protocol rather than merely a new version. The name is a lie.

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