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At my old university ~15 years ago, all IPs of all computers were public IPV4 addresses. Any computer plugged in to any ethernet port on campus was given such a

At my old university ~15 years ago, all IPs of all computers were public IPV4 addresses. Any computer plugged in to any ethernet port on campus was given such a "quasi-static" IP address. All normal ports were open - ssh, http(s), you name it. It was the OG zero trust architecture.

yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
> At my old university ~15 years ago, all IPs of all computers were public IPV4 addresses. Any computer plugged in to any ethernet port on campus was given such a "quasi-static" IP address. Well that's fine; my school did the same thing and other than feeling wasteful there was no- > All normal ports were open - ssh, http(s), you name it. It was the OG zero trust architecture. Oh. Yeah, open ports by default is... and interesting life choice.
- morkalork 1y ago
  When you're living in the residences and there's a DC++ server running, it's pretty sweet. Ours had a whole 1.5TB of stuff on it!
  - VoidWhisperer 1y ago
    Was this RIT by any chance?
fecal_henge 1y ago
This just got cancelled at my institution. I could have retained it if I argued strongly enough.
foobarian 1y ago
Ah the good old days of putting my head down at my desk lulled into a nap by the once-a-second sounds of ssh login attempt logs being written to the spinning rust drive...
guappa 1y ago
How am I going to work from home if my computer at university is not recheable?
DaSHacka 1y ago
My university does the same, except they understand the concept of "firewalls"
rahimnathwani 1y ago
Only computers? At my old university even printers had public IP addresses.
dehrmann 1y ago
I used to have the public IP address of the computer in my dorm room memorized. It's been 20 years, and I still remember it started with 128.211.
pjc50 1y ago
I loved that era and it was hugely educational to me, but I can understand why it had to end.
akeck 1y ago
MIT and their /8?

yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago

> At my old university ~15 years ago, all IPs of all computers were public IPV4 addresses. Any computer plugged in to any ethernet port on campus was given such a "quasi-static" IP address. Well that's fine; my school did the same thing and other than feeling wasteful there was no- > All normal ports were open - ssh, http(s), you name it. It was the OG zero trust architecture. Oh. Yeah, open ports by default is... and interesting life choice.

morkalork 1y ago
When you're living in the residences and there's a DC++ server running, it's pretty sweet. Ours had a whole 1.5TB of stuff on it!
- VoidWhisperer 1y ago
  Was this RIT by any chance?

fecal_henge 1y ago

This just got cancelled at my institution. I could have retained it if I argued strongly enough.

foobarian 1y ago

Ah the good old days of putting my head down at my desk lulled into a nap by the once-a-second sounds of ssh login attempt logs being written to the spinning rust drive...

guappa 1y ago

How am I going to work from home if my computer at university is not recheable?

DaSHacka 1y ago

My university does the same, except they understand the concept of "firewalls"

rahimnathwani 1y ago

Only computers? At my old university even printers had public IP addresses.

dehrmann 1y ago

I used to have the public IP address of the computer in my dorm room memorized. It's been 20 years, and I still remember it started with 128.211.

pjc50 1y ago

I loved that era and it was hugely educational to me, but I can understand why it had to end.

akeck 1y ago

MIT and their /8?