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Edge Cloud
Personal blog · edge-cloud.netsystemsprogramming
Edge Cloud is a personal blog at edge-cloud.net about systems and programming. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-15, 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 edge-cloud.net posts on IPv6 link-local addressing, including using fe80::1 as the link-local gateway address. The single comment cites one post as the source of that practice.
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.
Edge Cloud is a personal blog about various technical subjects, especially data centers, virtualization, networking and cloud computing.
What Hacker News says?
I'd highly suggest you follow the NANOG BCOP. There's a site for it: http://nabcop.org/index.php/IPv6_Subnetting Here's where I got the idea of using fe80::1 everywhere for the link-local gateway: https://www.edge-cloud.net/2013/08/ipv6-link-local-addresses...
Comment linking /2013/08/ipv6-link-local-addresses-as-default-gateway/
on “IPv6 non-alternatives: DJB's article, 13 years later”Submitted CloudFlare: Redirect to Social Media on Origin Failure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Track Your CloudFlare PoPs Usage in Google Analytics as a story · 2 points
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