TCP Fast Open? Not so fast!
Guest Post: As TCP becomes more important to DNS, overhead is becoming an issue.
Tag: TCP
Are large DNS messages falling to bits?
Guest Post: How much of a problem are large DNS responses over UDP, in the wild?
Programmatically analyse packet captures with GoPacket
Guest Post: How to build a Golang custom packet processor using the GoPacket library to passively watch API traffic.
Transport protocols and the network
Encrypted transport headers, transport protocol meddling, and content vs carriage.
Anycast performance monitoring with Anteater
Guest Post: The open-source DNS tool Anteater allows real time monitoring of operator infrastructure, using their own traffic.
Introducing TCPLS: A game of transport protocols
Guest Post: QUIC combines features of TCP and TLS to speed up web object transfers, but it has its flaws. What if there was another way to combine TCP and TLS?
Congestion Control at IETF 110
An update on current research activities in transport protocol flow control.
How Facebook achieves disruption-free updates with zero downtime
Guest Post: Leveraging different components of the end-to-end networking infrastructure to prevent disruptions from releases.
Measuring the impact of DNS Flag Day 2020
Just how bad is packet fragmentation loss in the DNS? See the results of DNS Flag Day 2020.
Thoughts from IETF 109
Geoff Huston shares his thoughts from IETF 109, including on AS Prepending, Community Networks, DNS centrality, IPv6, and TCP.