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It's not DNS (programming.dev)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (16 children)

Does anyone else have the thought that maybe it's time to just replace these 30+ year old ancient protocols? Seems like the entire networking stack is held together with string and duct tape and unnecessarily complicated.

A lot of the decisions made sense somewhat in the 80s and 90s, but seems ridiculous in this day and age lmao

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Some ancient protocols get replaced gradually though. Look at http3 not using TCP anymore. I mean at least it's something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

HTTP3 uses UDP, which is 6 years younger than TCP.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Nope, it uses a protocol on top of UDP called QUIC. If you count underlying protocols further down the stack, obviously all of them are really old.

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