James Knott wrote:
On 2023-04-28 14:28, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
NAT is a royal PITA.
Hasn't been a PITA for me, or any of my users that I know of.
Sure, it's problematic if you want to run a server open to the public. But that's most likely problematic with your ISP's AUP anyway.
The first problem I came across was it blocked FTP. You had to use passive FTP to get by it, but back in those days we used FTP apps and they didn't support it. Now, it gets in the way of VoIP and some online games. You have to use another hack, called STUN, to make them work.
"now" meaning almost 15-16 years ago. My STUN server is from 2007. per@natrium:~> l /usr/bin/stund -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 171977 2007-09-30 14:45 /usr/bin/stund* "natrium" is my Asterisk server - nobody really dares to touch it :-) Anyway, it's really wayyyyy off-topic. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (13.2°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes (2016 - present) We're hiring - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Heroes