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Re:How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet by inopinatus on Monday April 08, 2024 @10:23PM (#39975750)
Not a counterexample exactly, but your remark reminded me of this eldritch horror: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-servers-dont-own-ips-...

TLDR: Cloudflare is using five bits from the port number as a subnetting & routing scheme, with optional content policy semantics, for hosts behind anycast addressing and inside their network boundary.

Filed in my bookmarks under "abominations".

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Re:How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet by jbernsteiniv on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @12:43AM (#39976239)
From the link: "A lot of Cloudflare's technology is well documented. For example, how we handle traffic between the eyeballs (clients) and our servers has been discussed"

Already 1 sentence in and we've already got Eldritchian horrors with customers described as just their watery orbs in their skull.

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