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RE: Nat

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Mon Dec 21 12:18:43 2015

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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 17:18:37 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Alan Buxey <A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk>
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Alan Buxey <A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk> wrote:

> Most people don't need the devices to talk to each other

A lot of home networking uses mDNS - partitioning off devices will break
things like printing and chromecast and using your phone as a remote
control for your media players, etc. ad nauseam.

Tony.
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