On: All quiet in the IPv4 Internet?

[sp00ls]

Same thing at SUNY Polytechnic (previously SUNYIT). Its been a few years since I left but when I was there all hardwired devices had a public IP address.

[wtbob → sp00ls]

> Its been a few years since I left but when I was there all hardwired devices had a public IP address.

Which is, of course, how it's supposed to be. I used to host a website from my dorm room.

Every device on the Internet should have a public IP address!

[Walf → wtbob]

> Every device that wants to be on the Internet should have a public IP address!

We don't need every network-connected device, with all their flaws accessible to the world. Unfortunately, IPv6 will not help us there.

[XorNot → Walf]

That's what firewalls are for.

In a perfect world you'd get your ipv6 prefix from your ISP, and have your firewall white list specific outbound suffix addresses.

If you need topology privacy you'd shuffle your /64 every once in a while.

[pbhjpbhj → Walf]

Doesn't IPv6 have local addresses that aren't routed externally, like ::1.