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AWS NLBs and the mixed up TCP connections
One of my services was running into timeouts, because connections were being reset by clients. I had assumed that it couldn't be the Network Load Balancers (NLB
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 239 posts.
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Use Unix Pipes to Improve Chromecast Playback
When casting from YouTube to a Chromecast, sometimes the audio playback will skip and stutter. We can use VLC and Unix pipes to address this problem.
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Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes
How Google prepares for and protects against the largest volumetric DDoS attacks.
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The Web is the Next Platform (1995)
I started working full-time on what became Internet Explorer 1.0 in early October, 1994, grew the engineering team to 67 individuals by the time we shipped IE 3.0 in August, 1996, and got very litt…
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The facts around Zoom and encryption for meetings/webinars
Learn more about how to use each Zoom product to connect with coworkers, customers, businesses, and more with insights and best practices.
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What happens when you load a URL? (2015)
I've been hearing this question a lot lately, and when I do, it reminds me how much I don't know. Here are some questions this question brings to mind.
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Building a subsea cable to better connect Africa
Connectivity is at the heart of our mission to give people the power to build community. We are committed to bringing more people online to a faster internet — and with 3.5 billion people globally …
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How to Improve Bluetooth Audio Quality on Linux
Bluetooth Audio on Linux is a bit of a mess. There's a fair bit you can do to significantly improve the quality though.
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Kr00k vuln in WiFi chips that allows unauthorized decryption of traffic
Kr00k – formally known as CVE-2019-15126 – is a vulnerability in Broadcom and Cypress Wi-Fi chips that allows unauthorized decryption of some WPA2-encrypted traffic.
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Zero Trust Networks
I am leery of jargon. I am as guilty of using it as the next engineer, but there comes a point where there are just too many precise, narrowly-understood terms polluting your vocabulary. The circle of people you can talk to shrinks until going to the store to buy milk feels like an exercise in speaking a foreign…
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WireGuard on K8s: road-warrior-style VPN server
Road-warrior-style VPN server
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Leakage paths for the Apple / Google Bluetooth tracing system
Plus general overview
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I'm back into the grind of FreeBSD's wireless stack and 802.11ac
hi! Yes, it's been a while since I posted here and yes, it's been a while since I was actively working on FreeBSD's wireless stack. Life's...
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TP-Link Archer VR1600V V2 Super User Password Cracked
Well the news is out, I won’t explain the method for reasons, but our code warriors have a new fight. After requesting the SU password, they were told flat out it doesn’t exist and refe…
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Egypt Blocks Access to Telegram
Technology and Law Community "Masaar” documented the blocking of the Telegram website and application by the Egyptian authorities on 22 October 2020. The authorities blocked Telegram on three of the Internet service networks operating in Egypt. These networks included “We”, “Vodafone” and “Orange”. Masaar learned…
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United States wants HTTPS for all government sites, all the time
The Sophos Blog
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Achieving 100Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server
Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server, Zhao et al., OSDI’20 Papers-we-love is hosting a mini-event this Wednesday (18th) where I’ll be leading a panel discussion including one …
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Building a WireGuard jail with FreeBSD's standard tools
Recently, I had an opportunity to build a WireGuard jail on a FreeBSD 12.1 host. As it was really quick and easy to setup and it has been working completely fine for a month, I’d like to share my experience with anyone interested in this topic. I would like to use WireGuard app on my Android phone to access my home…
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Cloud Traffic
I recently watched Build an enterprise-grade service mesh with Traffic Director , featuring Stewart Reichling and Kelsey Hightower of GCP, and of course Google Cloud’s Traffic Director . Coming at this with a brain steeped in 5½ years of AWS technology and culture was surprising in ways that seem worth sharing.
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Creating a Home IPv6 Network
One of the recent experiences of Linux Plumbers Conference convinced me that if you want to be part of a true open source WebRTC based peer to peer audio/video interaction, you need an internet address that’s not behind a NAT. In reality, the protocol still works as long as you can contact a stun server to tell you…
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A look at Chang’e 5 telemetry
Chang’e 5 is a Chinese lunar sample return mission. It was launched a few days ago on 2020-11-23 from Wenchang and is estimated to perform lunar orbit injection on Saturday. Since then, a number of Amateurs such as USA Satcom , Paul Marsh M0EYT , Scott Tilley VE7TIL , Fer IW1DTU and others have been receiving the…
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Beginners guide to gateways and proxies
Have you heard of gateways, proxies, load balancer, API gateways? This article explains what gateways are, what is their purpose and how they work with pract...
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Decentralize Messaging
Twitter is funding a team to decentralize social media. I think they should start with messaging.
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DisplayPort and 4K
The Problem Video playback looks better with a higher scan rate. A lot of content that was designed for TV (EG almost all historical documentaries) is going to be 25Hz interlaced (UK and Australia)…
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5G and Shannon’s Law
Why 5G's faster data rates are possible: Shannon's Law explained in plain language.
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Why Zoom Chose Oracle
This post analyzes why Zoom chose Oracle as its new cloud infrastructure provider.
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How to use FIDO2 USB keys with SSH
I recently installed Ubuntu Wacky Whatever, the latest version, and I’m very excited about it shipping with SSH 8.2, which means that I can finally use hardware USB keys for secure, easy to use authentication. If securing your devices has been something you’ve wanted to easily do yourself, read on, because it’s…
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Making aerial fiber deployment faster and more efficient
Globally, more than 3.5 billion people are still not connected to the internet. With average data usage per person growing 20 to 30 percent annually, legacy bandwidth-limited technologies have been…