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IPv6’s vast address space makes scanning particularly challenging. IPv6 scanners must first discover in-use IPv6 addresses they can target and scan.

 


In this article, I follow the shift from backbone to delivery edge, looking at how content and cloud platforms are taking on roles once associated mainly with traditional CDNs, what public measurements can and cannot show, and what Google and Meta deployments inside one access network reveal about the changing role of operators.

 


Working from home is still one of the most important uses of broadband, particularly in rural communities.

 


A MikroTik router in a honeypot network of mine was recently compromised. The intruders set up a fairly elaborate persistence and remote-access scheme, but they never disconnected my admin session I was logged in with.

 


As AI agents transition from simple coding assistants to end-to-end engineers, the profession is shifting from writing syntax to auditing complex systems.

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Hedge 321: Sockets

There are many “unsung technologies” in the Internet. While we often think of TCP/IP, various models, Ethernet, and DNS, we don’t often think about the lowly socket interface. What is the history of the socket, and why is it important in the world of the Internet? George Michaelson joins Colin Doyle and Russ White to discuss the history and importance of sockets.
 

 

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We will be as unknowledgeable about what machines know about us as they are about what we know about them.

 


This post analyzes the technical details of the BGP hijack against Softaculous Ltd, the company behind the Softaculous auto-installer and the Virtualizor VM management platform.

 


In this episode of PING, we speak with Willem Toorop from NLnet Labs and Ilyas Rahimi, who recently completed a Master’s in Security and Network Engineering at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). They discuss their research into the effects of local root serving.

 


One effective form of attack on the Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure, including the root servers, is the so-called ‘random name attack’.

 


The original purpose of a telephone number was to identify a specific customer. When telephones first came into use, they could only be used to call people in the immediate area who could be connected by the local neighborhood operator.

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Hedge 319: Using AI

AI is everywhere. While there are many questions about whether AI is a bubble, the ethics of AI, and the cultural impact of AI, in this episode of the Hedge Mike Bushong joins Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ to talk about how network engineers can use AI. Are some use cases better than others? Are there pitfalls network engineers should avoid? Listen in and find out.
 

 
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Recognizing that AI is a bubble requires one to apply the right test to the right companies and that requires one to understand the fundamental nature of the bubble in question.

 


Based on the insights from those articles, we now shift attention to which parts of the Internet Route Registry (IRR) landscape can – or cannot – be replaced safely with information from the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) system.

 


While many faults manifest as crashes or exceptions, others are far more subtle to identify. Silent data corruptions (SDCs), also known as silent data errors or silent errors, are violations of data integrity that occur without immediate, observable, and explicit indications.

 


Aligning intended learning outcomes, assessments, and teaching practices with the realities of AI-assisted programming.

 


AI is transforming the role of the junior developer. But as routine tasks become increasingly automated, how will the next generation of software engineers master the craft of maintaining complex systems?

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