> If you're behind carrier grade NAT and inbound traffic gets dropped then you don't have an internet connection.
What an interesting statement. It's certainly called an Internet connection in all of the marketing materials and is regarded as such by everyone that I've talked to. I guess it's a case of most people's standards and thus common parlance being vastly different to what someone else might expect. Then again, self hosting is a niche thing to do, so that's understandable.
In addition, one could even argue that giving people's devices public IP addresses might be a bit problematic in the first place, from a security point of view - in University every device that I connected to the network got a public IP address and without fail any with an SSH server was the subject of attacks not long after.
Though the real explanation is probably one that has to do with finances and the lack of IPv4 addresses, as well as the fact that IPv6 adoption in Latvia is basically non-existent, from what I can tell.
What an interesting statement. It's certainly called an Internet connection in all of the marketing materials and is regarded as such by everyone that I've talked to. I guess it's a case of most people's standards and thus common parlance being vastly different to what someone else might expect. Then again, self hosting is a niche thing to do, so that's understandable.
In addition, one could even argue that giving people's devices public IP addresses might be a bit problematic in the first place, from a security point of view - in University every device that I connected to the network got a public IP address and without fail any with an SSH server was the subject of attacks not long after.
Though the real explanation is probably one that has to do with finances and the lack of IPv4 addresses, as well as the fact that IPv6 adoption in Latvia is basically non-existent, from what I can tell.