On 04/27/2010 09:34 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > Dave Smith wrote: > >> Wow, can I just say that things have changed a lot since I was at BYU. >> Back then, everyone in the dorms got a publically routeable IP address >> with no firewall. That was awesome! My dorm computer was directly >> reachable from my home computer. Of course, back then I was running >> Windows 95, so it crashed after about 4 days, but hey, those were the days. >> > Ahh, the glory days when you could get hacked while installing RedHat > 6.2 through nfsd and WuFTPd, both of which were running out of the box > (essential services apparently). Even before you had a chance to secure > the system and do updates. >
Yes indeed, though my dorm days were before Red Hat 6.2. When I was in the dorms, Red Hat was in the 5's, even though I had never even heard of Linux at the time. I was running OmniHttpd with Perl CGIs and some FTP server that I can't recall. I hosted beta releases of Whistler for a while. Raise your hand if you know what Whistler was. :) I seriously cannot believe that ResNet had 100% publicly routable IP addresses back then. No proxy. No NAT. That would be insanity in today's world. I had no idea how cool that was at the time. --Dave -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
