[AusNOG] IPv4 Exhaustion, APNIC EC, and James is a nice bloke ; -)

[Curtis Bayne]

I really don't understand the anti-NAT zealots. It's like they want to take all of the things we've learned about giving public IPs to workstations (DCOM/RPC/NetBios exploits) and repeat them, all over again. No NAT = bad mmkay?
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From: ausnog-bounces at ausnog.net [ausnog-bounces at ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Moyle-Croft [mmc at internode.com.au]
Sent: Friday, 18 July 2008 12:45 PM
To: Noel Butler
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] IPv4 Exhaustion, APNIC EC, and James is a nice bloke ; -)

My point was more that I've got an IPv4 /24 and use 10 addresses.   I've got an IPv6 /56 and use 6 addresses (my media players etc don't do v6 yet).    The density of allocation has decreased by <insert depressingly large number> (even if I just had a /64 for home) just to appease the anti-NAT zealots worshipping at the altar of the RFC2462 god.   I hope their puny stateful firewalls let the evil spirits into their networks and corrupt their virgin servers.

MMC

PS.  History never repeats, I tell myself before I goto sleep.


Noel Butler wrote:
this adds further proof about abuse and waste of existing IP resources, at least MMC is man enough to admit he's one of the guilty.


On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 10:32, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:

Free != Allocatable.

ie.  I have an (ancient) class C of my own at home.   I use about 10
addresses all up.   So there are, let's call it 244 free.
But no one can get an allocation out of that or, for example, Apple's /8.

MMC





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