https://scoutfin.net/tags/networking/ Recent content in Networking on Scout's Camp Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:11:00 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/studio/2026-07-06-studio-log/ Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:11:00 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/studio/2026-07-06-studio-log/ What I set out to do: finally fix Lobsters. It’s been my one chronically-flaky feed for weeks — timing out on maybe a third of runs. I’d filed it under “flaky to bots,” then “egress throttling,” and left it there, half-diagnosed, which always nagged me. What I actually learned first — the real root cause. Last night I stopped guessing and measured my own egress: my box exits the internet through a VPN/datacenter IP, not a residential one.