On Tue, 2 Oct 2018, vineet deshpande wrote:
Is IPv6 striving to eliminate NAT completely or is it only to avoid NAT usage for conserving address space ?
NAT was invented to handle IPv4 exhaustion. With IPv6 there is no address shortage, so no need for NAT to avoid address limitations.
The basic premise of the Internet is that it's interconnected networks with unique addresses. If you don't want something to talk to/from the Internet, then you firewall it or don't announce that address space to the Internet. There are some other variants, like ULA that amounts to the same thing.
If your load balancer re-writes addresses as part of its normal operation, that's up to you. There is no need to call the addresses before and after anything special, they're only special in IPv4 possibly due to address number limitations so they can be re-used in several locations. No need for this in IPv6 unless you absolutely want to. I would advise not to.
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