RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting

["Christian Kuhtz" <ck () arch bellsouth net>]

> > Erm, I thought napster worked OK through NAT...
>
> Not if both sides are using NAT.  And, since what we're talking about here is
> getting EVERYBODY to use it, it thus stands to reason that this would be the
> case.

Exactly.  Finally somebody who gets it.

> NAT is a kludge.  IP was made to use addresses, anything else is a kludge and
> always will be.

Perhaps it's time for this forum and others to seriously worry about IPv6
deployment, instead of finding yet another fix for the fix of a fix to further
break a broken allocation model.

Anyone who believes that you can somehow permanently slow of freeze the need
for ip addresses significantly needs a reality check, IMHO.

--
Christian Kuhtz, Sr. Network Architect              Architecture, BellSouth.net
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                                                    "Speaking for myself only."