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It doesn't confer much since it COULD be only NAT and no firewall.

It's INCREDIBLY unlikely to find a case of that in the wild, but possible.

A common example of a host that might have such an address but lacks that sort of security is anything as the default route for inbound packets, E.G. like you'd want your _own_ router / firewall rather than the ISP's modem.



I've managed networks where a publicly-routable block was NATed behind their router




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