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Daniel Jakots
Personal blog · chown.me/blog · on HN as Vigdissystemssecurity
Daniel Jakots's personal blog at chown.me covers systems and security. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Why and How I Got My Own ASN”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its post on getting one's own ASN (autonomous system number), cited as proof that independent routing is possible. The commenter's linked post is used as evidence for their own point about BGP routing tables.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why and How I Got My Own ASN2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-02
What Hacker News says?
Theoretically possible? Yes: https://chown.me/blog/getting-my-own-asn A good idea? No. IP addresses are used for routing. Every provider-independent block of addresses needs its own entry in the global routing tables, which are stored on basically every BGP router in the world. There's a limit to the size of these tables, as they need to be stored in special TCAM memory. Note that IPv4 currently has many more routes…
Comment linking /blog/getting-my-own-asn
on “Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6”Submitted Why and How I Got My Own ASN as a story · 311 points
HN discussionHey, OP here. It's not that unusual actually. Check bgp.services (I mentioned it in https://chown.me/blog/getting-my-own-asn#findinghosters ). A few years ago someone gave a talk "anycast on a shoestring": https://ripe69.ripe.net/wp-content/uploads/presentations/36-... The author explained how they found hosting services.
Comment linking /blog/getting-my-own-asn
on “Why and How I Got My Own ASN”Submitted Upgrading OpenBSD with Ansible (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Infrastructure as of 2020 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firewall ban-sharing across machines as a story · 1 points
HN discussion