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  • I agree with this. When I publish my code, it is documented for someone in my field with around my level of knowledge. I assume you know DNS, I assume you know what a vector is, I assume you know what a dht is, I assume you know what O(log n) is.

    I’m not writing a CS50 course, I’m helping you use the code I wrote.

    Might be different for software like libre office which is supposed to be used by anyone, but most software on earth is built with other developers in mind.






  • I broke DNS plenty of times in my homelab independent from NAT. In the last few months:

    • didn’t turn off DNS server in a wifi router set up as bridged access point
    • dnsmasq failing to start because I removed an interface
    • dnsmasq failing to start because the kernel/udev didn’t rename an interface on time
    • dnsmasq failing to start because hostapd error didn’t set proper interface settings
    • forgot to remove static DNS entries in /etc/hosts used for testing
    • forgot to remove DNS entries from /etc/resolve.conf after visiting a friend and working on his setup

    Yes, most of them is my dumb ass making mistakes, but in the end it’s something that constantly breaks and it helps knowing the IP addresses of my servers and routers.

    Aditionally, obscurity is a security helper. The problem is relying only on obscurity. But if I have proper firewall rules in place and strong usernames and passwords I still prefer if you don’t even know the IP addresses of my servers on top of that (in case I break some of the other security layers).