Proxying is just dumb routing

Proxying: it's good for you!

James and Amos are back, and talking about routing, reverse proxies, and yeeting packets onto the internet.

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[00:00:54] Proxying is just dumb routing
[00:03:22] Routing is a whole thing
[00:07:31] Not easy for small devices
[00:10:43] What about proxying
[00:18:01] Proxying upsides and downsides
[00:19:55] Good enough: embedded systems, PC bridges

Shownotes
River Reverse Proxy www.memorysafety.org/initiative/reverse-proxy/, Poststation poststation.rs/
proxy server en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server, postcard-rpc docs.rs/postcard-rpc/latest/postcard_rpc/
Domain Name System (DNS) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System, Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4 and version 6 (IPv6) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol
traceroute en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traceroute
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Control_Message_Pro… packets
Mara Bos github.com/m-ou-se, time traveling traceroute x.com/m_ou_se/status/1480184730058375176, time to live (TTL) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_live
HTTP/3 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/3, QUIC en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC
Collapse OS collapseos.org/, dual in-line package (DIP) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_in-line_package
assembly to forth to Python github.com/asrp/flpc
Nginx en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx, Apache HTTP Server en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server, Caddy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddy_(web_server)
connection termination en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protoco…, sidecar proxy www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/definition/s…
Squid caching and forwarding HTTP web proxy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid_(software)
bufferbloat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat
Go programming language en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language), Amos' articles "I want off Mr.Golang's Wild Ride" fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wil… and "Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang" fasterthanli.me/articles/lies-we-tell-ourselves-to…
postcard docs.rs/postcard/latest/postcard/
MAC address en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address
Variable-length quantity (varint) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-length_quantity