[rescue] Public IP addresses [Was: rescue Digest, Vol 226, Issue 38]

[Nemo Nusquam]

On 2021-09-30 21:50, Scott Quinn wrote:
> On 9/30/21 16:19, rescue-request at sunhelp.org wrote:
>> I'm sure I've shared this thought here before, but when I got my first
>> job doing programming 25 years ago, my workstation had a public IP
>> address.  I could*publish*  to the*world*  just by copying files into
>> ~/public_html/.
Sorry that I missed this comment earlier but my wife worked at a very 
large university that had so many IPv4 addresses that all staff had 
public IP addresses.


>> [...]
>
> You've got the legitimate concern part - that many people probably 
> won't run a secure server if it is at home, and we've seen where that 
> goes over and over.

So true...

N.