A hard look at the root cause of most problems
  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    BGP is fragile

    DNS is insecure

    SMTP is insecure

    We patch and plug, layer protocols and encryption.

    I think if we started over today, we could do better. But I also think if we started over today, we’d just try to wire in more crypto/blockchain bullshit.

    • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      The problem with all software is adoption. Usually it’s trying to get people to adopt a protocol or buy a piece of software that causes less than optimal decisions to be made. There have been lots of good replacements for all of the things you mentioned, they just never caught on. And the problem in the beginning when they didn’t have those pressures was the hardware and bandwidth limitations.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Yeah it’s just a thought exercise hypotheticals. There’s no way we’d move off TCP/UDP while it’s still capable of doing most of what we need.

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    His point of using IPv6 as proof of ossification is partially correct. The major problem with IPv6 is that it’s friggin unreadable to developers. 1::abdc:124 and a bunch of other things just make it difficult to read and parse.

    It’s probably obvious that I have not come in contact with it much, but why weren’t dots used instead of colons? IP addresses with double the length or with hexadecimal characters would’ve been OK. Unless there’s a technical reason not to do so…

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