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[–] 75 points 17 hours ago (19 children)

what happened to cache invalidation?

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  • [–] 43 points 17 hours ago (15 children)

    Networking Issues is probably Cache Invalidation in Disguise.

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago (8 children)

    I keep seeing "networking is hard" come up here. Where is this coming from? Is it IPv6 or something?

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  • [–] 13 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

    I started in networks.

    The volume of people who work in technology that don't understand networking is astonishing. I probably spent more time explaining how a web proxy works than I did actually setting things up.

    Firewall rules? Spells and magic. Routing? Unpossible! DNS? Forget it, I'm going home.

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago

    Subnetting and the difference between /8 and /24 or /32 and how you allocate IP addresses between them has always been crazy for me to grasp.

    I feel like if I could finally understand that after 20 years … I’d be happy but no here I am, effectively ignorant to it and looking at networking wizards as true wizards

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  • [–] 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

    Networking is so easy nowadays. Just plug a network cable into your device and it mostly works out of the box. Don't you guys remember the bad old times of coax cables and token ring?

    Imagine providing a public WiFi before 1993, even if you ignore the fact that WiFis had a cable back then.

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