Tag Archives: TCP/IP

TCP/IP: SYN flood attack on the RTFM server, and “Hacker News hug of death”
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2 January 2026

Got an alert from the monitoring system this morning, indicating that the blog is down: Well, I thought: another one DDoS, not the first time. Investigating the issue I went to the Cloudflare admin, enabled the Under Attack Mode, and started the investigation. Checked the requests: I think, okay, it’s simple – requests are coming… Read More »

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TCP/IP: OSI and TCP/IP models, TCP packets, Linux sockets and ports
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19 July 2025

It’s difficult to describe in one post what thousands of books have been written about in a thousand pages, but today we’ll try to quickly review the basics of how hosts communicate on a network. First, let’s talk about the OSI and TCP/IP models, then about packet structure and connection establishment, and finally, we’ll look… Read More »

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Prometheus: blackbox-exporter probe_http_status_code == 0 and its debug
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6 March 2019

Today I decided to upgrade Grafana to already released version 6.0 and all other Docker images as well. Upgrade was successful – Loki eventually started displaying previously missed log-file names and other tags, just – immediately I got a bunch of CRITICAL alerts in our Slack from the blackbox-exporter which is used to check every… Read More »

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