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Patterns in Network Architecture First published in 2007, Patterns... describes a kind of grand unification of network protocols, collapsing the fraught OSI model into a single, re…

Because RIPE's last /8 is gone, any remaining addresses will come from whatever has been recovered. Under no circumstances should you expect to receive a contiguous /22 through LIR…

If you're not satisfied with the low-TTL/round-robin strategy, you would need to build out some private infrastructure to perform routing failover. A tunnel with private routers be…

Be aware that there are caveats in this approach. First, a /24 or larger range is compulsory for multi-provider BGP, which is, itself, compulsory for dynamic advertisement in the w…

You are quite right that IPv4 is exhausted and unobtainable. Moreover, your intuition about IPv6 is also correct, though I would argue the lack of Internet-scale protocol translati…

Perhaps a better question is, "Does this area of technology suit you?" Don't give up without a fight, and don't assume "being bad" at what you're doing now means you can't improve …

I used to back up my friend's website over FTP to a git repo. He often would break something and have no way to know what broke or how to fix it. I frequently set up automatic back…

"...inadvertently eliminating allergens..." Whatever your view on ketosis, I strongly agree that food allergies may be causing more grief than we know. In particular, I suspect mos…

On the contrary, I think you're being precisely the right amount of skeptical. I'm no expert, either. I've read some of the relevant literature when able, and I've experimented ext…

The real question is whether or not ketogenic diet is good for you . Unfortunately, the literature simply cannot supply a clear answer either way. Joe Rogen just did a great show w…

Though this in no way addresses your question, I hope it may still be of use. I regularly create extremely information-dense graphs for highly distributed, stateful systems. The re…

"Internet Routing Architectures" from Cisco Press is not a bad start, if slightly dated. More practically, study the data kept at peeringdb.com, bgp.he.net, bgp4.as, radb.net, and …

It absolutely makes sense. If you're not doing math or writing code, then you're compiling reports and ticking boxes in checklists. Get out of infosec, and start building things. Y…

Yes, though the extent to which this is feasible is limited by hardware, commerce, and law. Even now, there exist alternative protocols and communities of varying scope for every p…

The loop detection mechanism discussed in that paper is exactly what eBGP uses to test paths for loops. This is sometimes referred to as a path vector.

PZ Myers had words about this some time ago: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/01/17/ankylodillos-a...

If you leave then they're no longer paying you, so you owe them nothing, right? :)

Adam Savage once said he distrusted anyone that hadn't failed, and I share this sentiment. It's likely that, if you haven't failed spectacularly, then you've not had the opportunit…

Flagged or no, can we all agree to do as OP did? A post and a call could mean everything.

In the name of whatever is good, I sincerely hope your intercession proves fruitful.

Had trouble getting past the AP map. Here's a direct link: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20170123/news/301239883/

I'm not certain Assange has "weaseled" anything in this particular case. Had he not sought an exchange? The logic of this article would have Assange extraditing himself to the US i…

I take 6000IU per day. The combination of living in the midwest and working indoors all the time is detrimental, and so vitamin D has become an important part of my supplementation…

I'm a freelance consultant, and I know all to well the danger burnout represents. I don't know whether being salaried still confers the level of support it once did, but admitting …