Same! I even had my home network on a public /24.
Re:Why is IPv6 so complicated?
by ExoticPearTree on Saturday April 18, 2026 @07:51AM
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The good ol’ days. Same. Had a public IP on my computer, could SSH into it to read my mail.
That I still do, but now it goes through a firewall, a bastion host and a second different firewall.
i still do this today!
Re:Why is IPv6 so complicated?
by CodesInChaos on Sunday April 19, 2026 @02:59AM
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You run a mail server on a residential IP? I thought that pretty much guarantees non delivery nowadays?
Pretty much all tech companies and universities had a drop-in ftp server where anyone could, anonymously, put and retrieve files. It was a collective 'pastebin' useful to exchange information with clients and partners.
On the ftp server of the company I worked for, someone had put a cracked copy of our software for their colleagues to use.
Re:Why is IPv6 so complicated?
by otabdeveloper4 on Sunday April 19, 2026 @05:36AM
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> Good times.
Hope you're sarcastic, because they really weren't. It was a shitshow for decades until we figured out just a bit of a clue about security practices.
Topic drift, but for younger people who didn't live it, that's how it used to be!
For most of the 90s my workstation in the office (at several employers) was directly on the Internet. There were no firewalls, no filtering of any kind. I ran my email server on my desktop workstation to receive all emails, both from "internal" (but there was no "internal" really, since every host was on the Internet) people and anyone in the world. I ran my web server on that same workstation, accessible to the whole Internet.
That was the norm, the Internet was completely peer to peer. Good times.