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The CZ.NIC Staff Blog
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The CZ.NIC Staff Blog is the company blog at en.blog.nic.cz, writing about systems and security. Since 2015, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
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What Hacker News says?
You can get over 9 million queries per second from an AMD Epyc box https://en.blog.nic.cz/2019/12/10/epic-dns-benchmarking/ and over a million qps on more modest hardware https://www.knot-dns.cz/benchmark/ but a lot of the root DNS servers are running BIND so aren’t able to reach such lofty heights
Comment linking /2019/12/10/epic-dns-benchmarking/
on “A Chrome feature is creating load on global root DNS servers”Submitted Embedding LuaJIT in 30 minutes as a story · 64 points
HN discussionI hooked up LuaJIT to emacs for fun. Emacs recently released a new module system where you can build DLLs that are loaded dynamically: http://diobla.info/blog-archive/modules-tut.html Getting LuaJIT to work on 64-bit OS X required building a custom emacs with linker flags -pagezero_size 10000 -image_base 100000000. This is unfortunate since obviously users will not take the time to build an emacs with custom linker…
Comment linking /2015/08/12/embedding-luajit-in-30-minutes-or-so/
on “LuaJIT 2.0.5 and 2.1.0-beta3 released”Submitted More than a million 'smart' devices part of a spreading botnet as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Features in Knot DNS 2.0 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted NXNSAttack: Upgrade resolvers to stop new kind of random subdomain attack as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted BIRD’s Journey to Threads as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Knot DNS 1.1.0 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Releasing DNS Probe as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted …and they’re gone (Turris Omnia routers) as a story · 1 points
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