also apparently that firewall block was unauthorized by network provider lmao
so after organization that got relocated to dorm room asked about opening ports for their website, provider intervened and now they manage the connections and that's why the block got lifted, and since provider states that ports shouldn't be blocked at all it seems that the restriction might be lifted permanently
So TIL that like
every device that gets connected to the Dorm network gets a PUBLIC IPv4 address
there's no NAT
it's just
public IPv4
I can host website on my laptop and just go on the IP address and it works
there used to be a limitation that it ONLY blocked ports under 1024, but currently (at least for now, they say that they "plan" to return those blocks) even ports below are unrestricted. lol