Ask HN: How can we make networking more awesome in a weekend?

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11 points·jlees··7 comments

I was intrigued when I thought this could have been about computer networking.

Yeah. Faster ZeroConf resolution. Make ad-hoc wifi more useful. Fix up wireless security so I can have encrypted traffic going between my laptop and the base station while still making it open access. Get everyone to adopt IPv6 so I don't have to do all this NAT stuff. More mesh networks. Run a mesh network on trains so you can get continuous Internet connectivity in tunnels. Make VPNs and tunnels easier to setup so normal people can proxy around the Great Firewall of [China|Australia|Britain|employer|university|school].

Perhaps this betrays my non-entrepreneurial mindset, but this is all far more useful stuff.

Faster ZeroConf resolution.

Link-local and DHCP along with DNS-SD on mDNS or DNS-LLQ seem plenty fast to me — can you expand on that?

Okay, yes, that one was just plucked from thin air. ZeroConf resolution is quicker than I recall it to be. Consider it retracted.

Make the text NOT green on green background. I can barely read any of the survey questions.

And the checkboxes's labels look like links because of the different color em hand cursor. I actually tried to middle-click on one of them before trying the left click and seeing it just checks the box.

This is a StartupWeekend project, we'd love to find out more about what motivates you to network at events and the problems you have. Personally I always feel there are awesome people I'm just missing in the crowd, and I want to fix that using the magic of technology.

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