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Timothy Andrew
Personal blog · timothya.com/blogprogrammingsystemssecurity
Timothy Andrew's personal blog at timothya.com covers programming, systems and security. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Building a Recursive DNS Resolver”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Timothy Andrew's blog, linked for a git-stack post on stacked git branches and a write-up on running a local resolver with unbound from root hints. Commenters call these more interesting and a good write up.
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.
Personal website of Timothy Andrew — software engineer, writer, and builder.
Most-linked posts?
- Building a Recursive DNS Resolver4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-07-29
What Hacker News says?
This is more interesting: https://timothya.com/blog/git-stack/ https://gitlab.com/wavexx/git-assembler https://www.thregr.org/wavexx/software/git-assembler/
Comment linking /blog/git-stack/
on “Git Branches Have No Rules”Submitted Building a Recursive DNS Resolver as a story · 91 points
HN discussionYou start from root.hints and go from there. Here is good write up https://timothya.com/blog/dns/ In 99.9% of cases installing unbound locally and pointing DNS nameserver to 127.0.0.1 would work.
Comment linking /blog/dns/
on “DNS Resolver Quad9 Loses Global Pirate Site Blocking Case Against Sony”Submitted Building a Recursive DNS Resolver (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Recursive DNS Resolver as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secure your servers by blocking off sshd as a story · 2 points
HN discussion