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"Directly addressable endpoints" is how the Internet is supposed to work. It's how it did work for anyone who grew up with the 90's Internet.

NAT is a hack that let us get 30+ more years out of IPv4, nothing more. Sadly, we now have a generation of engineers who thinks NAT is normal.



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