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Broken packets: IP fragmentation is flawed
As opposed to the public telephone network, the internet has a Packet Switched design. But just how big can these packets be?
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Networking & Internet
The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 89 posts.
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Shutting down FTP services
Those of you who have been around for a while may remember a time when you used to be able to mount kernel.org directly as a partition on your system using NFS (or even SMB/CIFS). The Wayback Machine shows that this was still advertised some time in January 1998 , but was removed by the time the December 1998 copy was…
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Cloudflare Reports Massive Slowdown in Network Level DDoS Attacks
News outlets and blogs will frequently compare DDoS attacks by the volume of traffic that a victim receives. Surely this makes some sense, right? The greater the volume of traffic a victim receives, the harder to mitigate an attack - right?
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Blueborne – A new attack vector endangering major operating systems
Following the disclosure of the BlueBorne attack vector this past September, Armis discovered that critical Bluetooth vulnerabilities impact the Amazon Echo and Google Home.
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DASH playback of AV1 video in Firefox
Bitmovin and Mozilla, both members of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), are partnering to bring AV1 playback with HTML5 to Firefox as the first browser to play AV1 MPEG-DASH/HLS ...
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Improving on Tor .onion Address Usability
Hello again, this blog post is the second issue of the Cooking with Onions series which aims to...
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Introducing HumbleNet: Cross-Platform Networking Library for the Browser
Announcing the release of HumbleNet, a project initiated at Humble Bundle in 2015 to port peer-to-peer multiplayer games, originally to asm.js and now to WebAssembly. The current open source version ...
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Andromeda 2.1 reduces GCP’s intra-zone latency by 40%
The latest version of Andromeda reduces network latency between Compute Engine VMs by 40% over Andromeda 2.0 and by nearly a factor of 8 since we first launched Andromeda in 2014.
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Five years of IPv6: whither the next five?
There isn't one story to the IPv6 deployment timeline - it can be rapid or slow, bumpy or smooth - but it is 'up and to the right'.
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16 Years with IPv6
Torbjörn Eklöv, Co-Founder and Owner of Interlan, was an early adopter of IPv6. He shares the benefits of IPv6 adoption and offers advice to anyone who wants to enable IPv6 in their network with a static configuration from an ISP.
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Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Sending Data
This post discusses monitoring and tuning the Linux networking stack in great detail with the focus on sending data.
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California consumer groups allow CenturyLink to end dark fiber leasing
If CenturyLink is allowed to buy Level 3 , then California will lose a major source of dark fiber. That’s my reading of a settlement agreement between CenturyLink, Level 3 and three of the organisations that challenged the deal at the California Public Utilities Commission. The fourth challenger, the California…
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Deploying a global, private CDN
Ideas, research, and practical guidance for ecommerce teams building faster storefronts and more efficient growth programs.
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How we moved to Google Cloud using Consul and ZeroTier with zero downtime
Our old hosting provider was having network issues... again. There had been a network split around 3:20 AM, which had caused a few of our worker servers to become disconnected from the rest of our network. The background jobs on those workers kept trying to reach our other services until their timeout was reached, and…
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Internet Atlas maps the physical internet to enhance security
A thorough understanding of the internet’s physical makeup has only recently emerged, thanks to painstaking work by UW-Madison researchers and their collaborators.
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5G Network end-to-end demonstration by Ericsson
Ericsson Newsroom features news, blogs and information related to 5G and next-gen technology leadership.
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Net Neutrality Violations: A History of Abuse
Here's what happens when cable and phone companies are left to their own devices.
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Routing & Network Namespaces
Like all Linux network interfaces, WireGuard integrates into the network namespace infrastructure. This means an administrator can have several entirely different networking subsystems and choose which interfaces live in each.
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Introducing Zero Round Trip Time Resumption (0-RTT)
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a faster and more secure Internet. Over the last several years, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has been working on a new version of TLS, the protocol that powers the secure web.