[125948] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Tue Apr 27 14:10:18 2010
Date: 27 Apr 2010 14:09:40 -0400
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Andy Davidson" <andy@nosignal.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100427173622.GA24745@chilli.nosignal.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>>> Did you use Yahoo IM, AIM, or Skype?
>> Yes, yes, and yes. Works fine.
>
> What about every other service/protocol that users use today,
> and might be invented tomorrow ? Do & will they all work with
> NAT ?
Some do, some don't. My observation is that in practice the stuff that
people do on consumer DSL works through NAT a lot better than the nanog
conventional wisdom says it does.
> Will it stop or hamper the innovation of new services on the
> internet ?
Like peer to peer phish bots? I certainly hope so.
R's,
John
