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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 282 posts.

2022
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The harmful consequences of the robustness principle

The robustness principle, often phrased as "be conservative in what you send, and liberal in what you accept", has long guided the design and implementation of Internet protocols. The posture this statement advocates promotes interoperability in the short term, but can negatively affect the protocol ecosystem over…

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A Memory Safe Implementation of the Network Time Protocol

Folkert and the team at Tweede golf are helping us to build a memory safe NTP implementation. We asked them to share their experience in this blog post. Thank you for your partnership and contributions, Tweede golf team! Josh Aas, Head of ISRG’s Prossimo project For the last few months we at Tweede golf have been…

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Protocols, not platforms

Does everybody get to coin one maxim in their lives? If so, here’s mine: Everything gets worse. Let’s say you’re shopping at the grocery, when you notice a new food product. It competes directly with

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How to properly interpret a traceroute or mtr

traceroute vs mtr When a packet travels across the Internet, it travels through multiple routers. The traceroute and mtr tools can be used to identify the routers a packet passes through between you and a given destination IP address. traceroute is a one-shot sort of tool whereas mtr runs and agg

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Why federated protocols don't work (2016)

At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software developer, I envy writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Unlike software, when they create something, it is...