Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

2013-03-12 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:29:38 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: We should be pounding away on the fact that we're running out of IP addresses... period... end of story. If people ask about NAT, then mention that the undersupply will be so bad that even NAT won't

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

2013-03-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
NAT behind a home router is bad, too. For IPv4, it's only necessary because there aren't enough IPv4 addresses to let everyone have a unique one. The best real reason for moving to IPV6 is address space (or lack thereof, in the case of IPV4). The people who are truly interested

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

2013-03-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 12/03/2013 01:31, Kevin Chadwick wrote: NAT behind a home router is bad, too. For IPv4, it's only necessary because there aren't enough IPv4 addresses to let everyone have a unique one. The best real reason for moving to IPV6 is address space (or lack thereof, in the case of IPV4).