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Pavel's blog about underlying Internet technologies
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Pavel's blog about underlying Internet technologies is a personal blog at pavel.network about systems and programming. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link posts on this blog about using a CD drive as a poor man's audio player and about Martian traffic in Linux. The comments do not judge the writing; one asks why RFCs aren't more readable.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Pavel's blog about underlying Internet technologies
What Hacker News says?
Great article. Thank you! I used to develop and maintain one of the World largest DNS services and summarised my experience with DNS protocol in this blog post: https://pavel.network/please-stop-using-dns-protocol-for-you...
Comment linking /please-stop-using-dns-protocol-for-your-application/
on “Why is DNS still hard to learn?”Submitted Please do not require AVX support for your software as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI vaguely remember CD drives with a headphone jack output! (E.g. this one: https://pavel.network/using-cd-drive-as-poor-man-audio-playe... )
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on “Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full”Submitted Network Traffic Telemetry on modern Telco grade routers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThank you for great feedback! I decided to cover NAT64 and DNS64 gateway setup guide mentioned in this article briefly: https://pavel.network/building-gateway-to-access-legacy-ipv4...
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on “Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux”Submitted Best way to get default outgoing IP address on Linux as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThank you very much for this question. I've rewrote and improve my article to cover exactly this topic: https://pavel.network/building-gateway-to-access-legacy-ipv4...
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on “Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux”Submitted Please stop using DNS protocol for your application as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt can be easily sorted out with DNS64 and NAT64: https://pavel.network/building-gateway-to-access-legacy-ipv4...
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on “Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux”Submitted Please do not require AVX support for your software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://pavel.network/content/images/2023/04/drop.png Why can't RFCs be readable by default? Why do they still have explicit line- and page-breaks and fixed-width fonts?
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on “Curious case of Martian traffic in Linux”Submitted Curious case of Martian traffic in Linux as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4 only apps on Linux as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Curious case of Martian network traffic in Linux as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted BGP Flow Spec: Ultimate Weapon Against Volumetric DDoS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multiple inconsistencies in BPF based UDP load balancing logic of Linux Kernel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linearly scalable UDP server with BPF based load balancing on Linux as a story · 1 points
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