Oh my god, it's so nice to live on a network of routable addresses. It felt weird for the first year at college but once you have it for a while the reduced ov

Oh my god, it's so nice to live on a network of routable addresses. It felt weird for the first year at college but once you have it for a while the reduced overhead is so nice. When I started managing a /24, the network administration was so amazing. Like relaxing on a big squishy couch. The internal nameserver and the external nameserver... were the same nameserver with one set of records. The firewall was actually a firewall, not set of limitations that could be imposed by a firewall but were in fact a technical limitation of the network gateway. I miss it so much. Now I'm sitting on a network that uses a private block, VPN-ed into a network that uses ALL 3 1918 blocks (don't ask). From the computer I'm sitting at various subnets will be routed to the local network, and others to the remote network. There are systems that I can not communicate with on both networks. I will stand up SSH tunnels to whenever I need to talk to them.