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sajal83··on Show HN: A REST API for Calculating VAT in the EU
Why use POST?
sajal83··on Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver
Freenom appears to not send part of the IP upstream...
sajal83··on Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver
Google actually implements a workaround to this issue.its called EDNS client subnet. Freenom does not.
sajal83··on Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver
So they are new and their network needs a lot of work. But claiming to be fast is dishonest https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/5879a1e3ecbe40377300a80...

Also any public recursive that does not do EDNS client subnet does not belong in 2017.

sajal83··on Update Regarding DDoS Event Against Dyn Managed DNS on Oct 21
Compromised routers can be used to compromise devices behind it. Also many devices (like IP cameras) usually have port forwarding to allow the users to access it from outside.
sajal83··on Introducing Our Bangalore Region
Traceroutes from 3 agents in India, unfortunately all 3 are in Bangalore. : https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/574f0cd7ecbe406cc400157...

Surprising that for AS24309 and AS17488 (Both TATA upstream) it goes via Delhi, so inefficient.

sajal83··on Introducing Our Bangalore Region
Because the measurements might have come from users on mobile.
sajal83··on Back door found in Allwinner Linux kernels
Now I finally understand why allwinner kernel is such a mess... If it were clean, it would be upstreamed and nobody would use their backdoor'd kernel.
sajal83··on Ask HN: Do you need a degree/diploma for a TN-1 (or other work) Visa?
Usually work experience in related field makes up for not having a degree/diploma for these things. Not sure how many years is needed.
sajal83··on 'Music' from /dev/urandom
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/361747/urandom.mp3
sajal83··on 'Music' from /dev/urandom
80s/90s computer game soundtrack...
sajal83··on [dead]
yes
sajal83··on Apple: Open Source
> Apple, the first major computer company to make Open Source development a key part of its software strategy

Sounds true assuming Apple thinks of itself as "the only major computer company"

sajal83··on Double paid traffic
> I don't entirely follow this part. Could someone clarify? Is "operating at their highest capacity" a bad thing? Is the implication "operating at their highest capacity [without expanding capacity when they should]"?

Yes. Basically existing links (thru transit providers) is saturated, if you(content provider) want good connectivity with these end-user networks you gotta pay more for direct connection.

sajal83··on Cloudflare Is Having Issues in USA, South America and Europe
Issues with HTTP as well, not just DNS : https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/5645b0f8ecbe402ea700034...
sajal83··on [dead]
It appears to be an issue with Akamai. They are either serving a wrong certificate (with www.irs.gov missing in SAN), or pointing to wrong servers in DNS.
sajal83··on [dead]
Looks like its starting to recover in some places.

NOTE: China is down not because Facebook, but because of GFW..

sajal83··on Show HN: Distributed MapReduce framework in Go
That is pretty cool. Did not know about your repo.
sajal83··on GitHub had connectivity problems
https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/55dc40efecbe400bf800146... problems during TCP connect

https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/55dc40faecbe400bf800146... traceroute looks ok..

sajal83··on GitHub is having connectivity issues
https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/55dc40faecbe400bf800146... - Traceroute looks good... so its probably frontend load balancer issues.

Also, the errors dont seem to be affecting users by geo, run multiple tests and different agents fail.

sajal83··on [dead]
https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/55dc40efecbe400bf800146... problems during TCP connect https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/55dc40faecbe400bf800146... traceroute looks ok..
sajal83··on AWS Cloudfront DNS Issue with British Telecom (see 128-Lee-Armstrong)
Checkout result from "128-Lee-Armstrong" . BT DNS servers respond with NOERROR but dont include an answer.
sajal83··on HTTP/2 technology demo
Oops my bad. Havent had my full dose of coffee today.
sajal83··on HTTP/2 technology demo
It appears they turned on keep alive in http/1.1 test now. http/1.1 timings improved by a lot ... still obviously slower than http/2
sajal83··on HTTP/2 technology demo
Outgoing traffic from S3 has no bandwidth cost associated with it.
sajal83··on HTTP/2 technology demo
concurrency is not impacted by this, but its affects window scaling, and 2 - 4 extra round trips per request for the connection setup.
sajal83··on HTTP/2 technology demo
yes #4 is totally cheating. But pipeling is very different from http/2 multiplexing. pipeling the responses has to come in order they were requested.. so it could suffer from head of line blocking. http/2 is async in that regards.
sajal83··on HTTP/2 technology demo
Akamai's http/1 does keep alive. This one does not.
sajal83··on HTTP/2 technology demo
The test is a lie. While I don't doubt improvements in http/2, this test uses "Connection: close" on the http/1.1 test, which means for each tile there needs to be a tcp connect and TLS handshake. This is not representative of real world.

In http/2 the "Connection: close" header is meaningless and all the tiles come from the same connection.

sajal83··on As You Sow Files Notice Of Legal Action Against Soylent Super Food
Is this comparing allowed levels in drinking water to whats allowed in food? if so then its apples and oranges. I would like to see if it compared to whats allowed in food.
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