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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Help with a full node
by
DaveF
on 23/05/2024, 18:27:30 UTC
...I have to say that I had never heard of having to pay a premium for port forwarding capabilities, but I reckon that nowadays ISPs are always looking for ways to charge customers functions that should be made available freely....

OT a bit but with the IP4 network address exhaustion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion
https://lightyear.ai/blogs/what-ipv4-address-exhaustion-means-for-you

More and more ISPs are using CGNAT for home customers:
https://nfware.com/blog/what-is-the-difference-between-nat-and-cgnat#:~:text=CGNAT%20(Carrier%2DGrade%20NAT),a%20single%2C%20public%20IP%20address.

So there is no port forwarding since you are more or less already on a 'private network' Some ISPs are dong a hybrid with your IP4 address coming through CGNAT but you also get a real pubic IP6 address that you can use.

So, yeah it's happening. Starlink is a prime example of this people ran out to get it and then discovered a bunch of things that need static port mappings no longer work.

-Dave