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> Is this old info or a bad take?

Yes. With IPv6 there are still stateful firewalls on routers. An app/service still generally needs to do firewall hole punching via UPnP or PCP. The main thing that goes away is the rigamarole of figuring out the public IP address:

* https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/

With my Asus RT-AC68U I can ping my IPv6 address:

* https://www.subnetonline.com/pages/ipv6-network-tools/online...

But cannot connect to SSH from the Internet (but localhost works), or port 80 (if I launch 'nc -6 -l 80'):

* https://www.subnetonline.com/pages/ipv6-network-tools/online...

Firewalls do not stop working with IPv6.



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