Ask HN: Looking for an Old Article
Looking for an old article about over engineering ip scanner into big data cluster while simple C program outperformed it greatly.
Looking for an old article about over engineering ip scanner into big data cluster while simple C program outperformed it greatly.
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I'm not sure about the article, but the blazingly-fast IP scanner sounds a lot like Masscan: https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan
It can scan the entire Internet in 5 minutes and has received a lot of press. https://rushter.com/blog/how-masscan-works/ is one of many articles about how it works.