[ale] [OT] AT&T/UVerse going to carrier grade NAT?

[Michael Campbell]

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:


> Does publicly visible mean an open, non-commercial WIFI? To many people
> use a secured WIFI in their homes to allow them to move around with having
> to run cables everywhere.
>

publicly visible (in the context I used it) simply meant an IP that could
be accessed from the Internet at large.  I don't have a static IP on my
home server now but I do have *AN* IP that I can get to from anywhere in
the world (networkologically), so with that and a port forward on my home
router, I can ssh to my home server from anywhere, for example. (Modulo
firewalls, etc.)

If all of Bellsouth's customers are behind a NAT, my WAN IP on the router
to the ISP is going to be a 10/8 address (10.*.*.*), and that machine will
not be directly pingable from the internet.  If this happens, I can no
longer get to any services I have running on my home server, from outside
my home.

I'm an admitted network neophyte, so I apologize if I've gotten terminology
(or ideas) wrong; would love to be taught correctly if I have.
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