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Scott's Weblog
Personal blog · blog.scottlowe.orgsystemsprogramming
Scott's Weblog is a personal blog at blog.scottlowe.org about systems and programming. Since 2010, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Using SSH Multiplexing (2015)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Scott's Weblog as a source on networking, Linux and BSD, SSH, and DNS/local-domain behaviour, often as a reference for answering questions. One commenter says they binge-read it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Original, technical content centered around cloud computing, Kubernetes, Linux, containers, and networking
Most-linked posts?
- Using SSH Multiplexing (2015)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-12-14
- Mac OS X and .local Domains (2006)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-16
What Hacker News says?
> Has anyone don this or could anyone point me in the right direction? Policy based routing https://blog.scottlowe.org/2013/05/29/a-quick-introduction-t...
Comment linking /2013/05/29/a-quick-introduction-to-linux-policy-routing/
on “Mozilla VPN Completes Independent Security Audit by Cure53”Submitted Conditional Git Configuration as a story · 286 points
HN discussionThe more famous (with VMware) Scott Lowe rarely writes about BSD and has denied any sort of involvement. http://blog.scottlowe.org/2010/12/14/allegations-regarding-f...
Comment linking /2010/12/14/allegations-regarding-fbi-involvement-with-openbsd/
on “Allegations of FBI crypto backdoors in OpenBSD IPSEC”Submitted A Quick Introduction to LXD as a story · 142 points
HN discussionIf you've any developers on your team that use MacOS, avoid .local since it does some listening on this for Bonjour: https://blog.scottlowe.org/2006/01/04/mac-os-x-and-local-dom... I believe .localhost is the "official" recommended TLD for local development.
Comment linking /2006/01/04/mac-os-x-and-local-domains/
on “Google .dev domain early access”Submitted Using WireGuard on macOS via the CLI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is pretty interesting, but unfortunately their intro page doesn't do a good job of explaining why. (For instance, they use the word "unprecedented" without really saying what makes Arrakis different from previous exokernel-like designs.) I'll try to summarize what I got out of skimming the paper[1]: When you have multiple applications running on the same machine, you need some way to safely share resources betw…
Comment linking /2009/12/02/what-is-sr-iov/
on “Arrakis”Submitted Linux Network Namespaces – Scott's Weblog as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> I mean, wtf? With open source, there is at least discussion and education about something like this. You'd be surprised -- unless you follow dev forums for various elements of your DE/distro. macOS moves because it updates into a clean system as far as those configs are concerned. In any case, it takes like 2 minutes to write a shell script to deploy your pf.conf/automount config after every such upgrade, and 1 se…
Comment linking /2013/05/15/using-pf-on-os-x-mountain-lion/
on “macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a. why I left macOS”Submitted Introducing Linux Network Namespaces as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLike other commentators have already mentioned but the openssl suite already solves these problems and even more complex ones For example: Specifying different keys different servers Host github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_github Host myserver User username IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_myserver Reuse SSH connections for multiple sessions https://blog.scottlowe.org/2015/12/11/using-ssh-multiplexing... https…
Comment linking /2015/12/11/using-ssh-multiplexing/
on “Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys”Submitted Running a Small Docker Swarm Cluster as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI don't subscribe, but I tend to binge read: https://blog.scottlowe.org/ (anything and everything network related) https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/ (anything 'pharma' but especially "Things I won't work with..") I wonder if they're related ... edit: fiddle with formatting / spelling
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on “Ask HN: What are some hard-tech blogs that you follow?”Submitted Mac OS X and .local Domains (2006) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot, that weird: > Host names that contain only one label in > addition to local, for example > "My-Computer.local", are resolved using > Multicast DNS (Bonjour) by default. Host names > that contain two or more labels in addition to > local, for example "server.domain.local", are > resolved using a DNS server by default. Apparently there's nothing wrong with adapting, say, .dev.local (or .ifft.local) with a corespo…
Comment linking /2006/01/04/mac-os-x-and-local-domains/
on “Developing with Docker at IFTTT”Submitted Using an SSH Bastion Host (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNo mention of network namespaces [1], network-related capabilities [2] or Open vSwitch [3]. [1] http://blog.scottlowe.org/2014/03/21/a-follow-up-on-linux-ne... [2] http://linux.die.net/man/7/capabilities [3] http://openvswitch.org/
Comment linking /2014/03/21/a-follow-up-on-linux-network-namespaces/
on “What's new in the Linux network stack? [pdf]”Submitted On the Topic of Lock-In as a story · 2 points
HN discussionVery excited about the fork's improvements given the lack of responsiveness in core repo. I've hit some of these bugs including the registry issue. Thank you for open sourcing it. I've used a combination of ProxyCommand directive in ssh config + a script it calls w/ the `%h` (host) to unpack what the correct instance-id is (like @galanwe). For the proxycommand, you can embed an `aws ec2-instance-connect send-ssh-pub…
Comment linking /2015/12/11/using-ssh-multiplexing/
on “Down the rabbit hole: Implementing SSH port forwarding over AWS Session Manager”Submitted Checking Out GitHub Pull Requests Locally as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBesides the usual public/private key system, OpenSSH supports a less-used system called user certificates. User certificates achieve the same purpose as your normal key but instead of pre-installing your public key on the server, you present a certificate during authentication and the server checks that it's signed by a trusted authority - it's more or less a PKI similar to that used for HTTPS, etc. One of the key a…
Comment linking /2015/11/21/using-ssh-bastion-host/
on “BLESS: SSH Certificate Authority for Ephemeral SSH Sessions”Submitted A Brief Introduction to Linux Containers with LXC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm sure this might be an unpopular opinion here, but my experience has been that when you do normal business collaboration - WebEx, etc. - in Linux, you spend more time fighting to make things work than you do actually working. Chrome and the proliferation of webapps has helped this somewhat, but it always ends up being something . Scott Lowe did a pretty interesting series of blog posts [1] on it and ultimately en…
Comment linking /2017/10/25/linux-migration-wrap-up/
on “Why hasn’t the Year of the Linux Desktop happened yet?”Submitted The End of the Infrastructure Engineer? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Conditional Git Configuration as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using SSH Multiplexing (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Retiring the Rockstar: A Counterpoint as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future of VLANs as a story · 1 points
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