Networking on Deepak Nagaraj

Privacy in today's age with a SOCKS proxy

n.deepak@gmail.com (Deepak Nagaraj) — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Say you are at a cafe, and you want to surf the Web. But the WiFi is not secure. Or say your company lets you bring your laptop, but what if its firewall has blocked your favorite website? Is there no hope, besides paying $15 to a VPN provider?

There is, and it costs about $3.50 per month as of this writing.

Resetting a TCP connection and SO_LINGER

n.deepak@gmail.com (Deepak Nagaraj) — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Can you quickly close a TCP connection in your program by sending a reset (“RST”) packet?

Socket timeout

n.deepak@gmail.com (Deepak Nagaraj) — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Have you run into a problem that happens only once in a while, and you never seem to have enough information to figure it out? We all have. This is one such tale: except that it has a happier ending.