On 4/25/25 7:02 PM, George N. White III wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM home user via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> wrote:

    (Fedora-42; stand-alone workstation)

    This is a totally new Fedora install on a stand-alone workstation, done
    today.  It is not a part of a LAN or WAN or any other home or office
    network.


Please describe how the system is connected to the internet.  Does your system get an IPv4 address
or IPv6?

unsure.  I'll continue through this thread and see.

Many "home" internet connection hardware does network address translation (NAT) to a non-routable address used by attached devices <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Network_address_translation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Network_address_translation>>. Vendors support NAT because it allows one IPv4 address to be used by all the devices on each customer network, but it also prevents external sites from connecting to the devices on the
customer network.

With NAT, connections to external systems must be initiated from your system, but many web sites use multiple external sites for elements of the page you see.  There is always a risk that one of these sites has been hacked and is serving malware or stealing personal information.  Firefox on Fedora
includes some measures to block or mitigate such attacks.

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George N. White III

Thank-you, George.

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