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		ErroneousBosh 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT Okay, but unless you've poked a hole through NAT (and if you have, presumably you know what you're doing), what are those incoming connections going to connect to? If there's nothing to connect to, is there really an incoming connection?

Dagger2 1 day ago [–]

They connect to whatever IP is specified in the packet's "destination IP" header field. It's exactly the same behavior as if there was no NAT going on.

kortilla 13 hours ago | [–]

The destination IP header from the internet belongs to the router. There is nothing internal to connect to without NAT.

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