Comment on No NAT November: My Month Without IPv4
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
The challenge didn’t ask to disable ipv4 but it was (jokingly) daring people to expose all ports to public to see how long the system would last before being exploited by bots. It wasn’t meant to be taken seriously 😆
SilverCode@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
How would you disable NAT and still use ipv4 unless you are able to assign a public IPv4 to your PC (and have nothing else in the network)?
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
You got it on the nose, only one device.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
You can essentially achieve this with some routers with a “DMZ” network segment/ device, so all incoming requests to your external IP get forwarded to it automatically if not part of an outbound NAT’ed session. You don’t even need to disable NAT.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 weeks ago
A standard DMZ still does NAT. You get a private IP and the router "nat"s you, just that it forwards all incoming traffic to that device by default. I think that disqualifies for no nat november.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
I admittedly did not read the original Mastodon post from nixCraft about the purpose of No NAT November, but surely it’s not just about moving to IPv6? You can (and usually would) still do NATing with IPv6. You don’t want every device to be internet-exposed, but still want them to be able to access the internet (and who wants to configure internet-defensive firewall rules on all their internal home hosts)?
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
you connect your PC directly out of the link that the ISP is giving you (if allowed), for example via PPPoE