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[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 week ago (54 children)

Actually, the Dutch government has mandated that all of its services need to be IPv6 compatible.

The longer you try to avoid IPv6, the harder you'll make your life when you eventually need to use it.

It's really not that hard, especially compared to the kludge of protocols that make up IPv4. I know change is scary and difficult, but if you can do IPv4, you can do IPv6.

[–] eclipse 10 points 1 week ago (34 children)

It also means you no longer need the kludge that is NAT. Full E2E connectivity is really nice -- though I've found some network admins dislike this idea because they're so used to thinking about it differently or (mistakenly) think it adds to their security.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I think you'll find some ISPs will be reluctant to let go of CGNAT - they're doing quite nicely by charging extra for 'commercial' services where it's not in the way.

Fortunately, many of us know about cloudflare tunnelling and other services, so NAT really isn't a problem to self hosters and even SMEs any more.

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