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|    Michiel van der Vlist to Victor Sudakov    |
|    Connection Tests    |
|    15 Apr 23 09:28:09    |
      TID: FMail-W32 2.2.0.0       RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes       TZUTC: 0200       CHRS: CP850 2       MSGID: 2:280/5555 643a5332       REPLY: 2:5005/49 6434ca25       Hello Victor,              On Tuesday April 11 2023 09:47, you wrote to me:               MV>> In IPv6 avery device has a Unique Global Address, so one        MV>> can simply create pinholes in advance as needed for the address        MV>> in question.               VS> Only when you know the IPv6 address and port beforehand.              When runing servers you normally do...               VS> Usually an IPv6 address on the home LAN is dynamic (SLAAC),              No. SLAAC addresses are not dynamic. They are derived from the MAC address.               VS> and the port in peer-to-peer applications, VoIP applications etc is        VS> often dynamic too.              VOIP normally uses standard ports.               VS> The situation is different of course when you are hosting an IPv6        VS> web-server or something like that. It would have a fixed IPv6 address        VS> and port anyway, so there is no need for punch-holing the firewall.              Indeed.                     Cheers, Michiel              --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20170303        * Origin: he.net certified sage (2:280/5555)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 15/0 19/10 90/1 103/705 104/117 105/81 106/201       SEEN-BY: 123/131 124/5016 153/757 7715 154/10 203/0 214/22 218/0 1       SEEN-BY: 218/215 700 860 221/0 6 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 113 206       SEEN-BY: 229/307 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 550 664 700 240/1120       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 250/1 266/512 280/464 5003 5006 5555 282/1038 292/854       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 301/1 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757 341/66 234 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 423/120 460/58 633/280 712/848 770/1 5019/40 5020/545       SEEN-BY: 5020/1042 5053/58       PATH: 280/5555 464 103/705 218/700 229/426           |
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