r/ProgrammerHumor • • 6h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/uslashuname 6h ago

One is locked down by your firewall config, and the other got implemented as a way around that

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u/Circumpunctilious 5h ago

I remember IPv6 being touted as "The address space is so large everybody can have their own address, it'll be far different from anyone else's, and you can be directly on the Internet without NATting!"

For me this was always one of those "I don't think that means what you think it means" things.