The fragility of transient identifiers
Let’s talk about the ‘Unfortunate History of Transient Numeric Identifiers’.
Tag: TCP
Beyond bufferbloat: End-to-end congestion control cannot avoid latency spikes
Guest Post: What are the fundamental limits of end-to-end congestion control in 5G networks?
Improving network performance with Dynamic Congestion Control Tuning
Guest Post: CDN shares how it detects cases where BBR provides improved performance enabling them to provide more custom congestion control.
More notes from IETF 112
Geoff Huston on currently active IETF routing security, IPv6, and transport discussions.
DNS-over-TCP considered vulnerable
Guest Post: There are several ways attackers can force TCP to fragment for inclusion in IP fragmentation attacks.
The relevance of heavy hitters and the rise of big-fast flows
Guest Post: Eleven-year study characterizes the rise of heavy hitters and big-fast TCP flows.
What’s ‘interop testing’ and why is it so tricky?
What happens when two people correctly read the same RFC yet their implementations of that protocol still differ?
More notes from IETF 111
Geoff Huston discusses currently active IETF areas that are not DNS related.
It’s time to replace MD5 with TCP-AO
Guest Post: Secure your routers and upgrade to TCP Authentication Option.
TCP Fast Open? Not so fast!
Guest Post: As TCP becomes more important to DNS, overhead is becoming an issue.