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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 "quasi-static" IP address. All normal ports were open - ssh, http(s), you name it. It was the OG zero trust architecture.

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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...

> 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.

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!

Was this RIT by any chance?

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

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

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.

Only computers?

At my old university even printers had public IP addresses.

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

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

MIT and their /8?

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