nuintari's rules of networking 0x13:
Seriously.
NAT is not a firewall.
NAT is not kind of a firewall.
NAT is not like a firewall.
NAT is not sort of a firewall.
NAT is not a firewall.
There is a world of difference between explicitly denied traffic, and traffic dropped because the device just didn't know what to do with it.
The Psychotic Network Ferret
npub1en…n4qpv
2026-07-15 13:12:10 UTC
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2026-07-15 13:12:10 UTCEvent JSON
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