Ask HN: Looking for an Old Article 1 points by ferreus 3y ago ↗ HN Looking for an old article about over engineering ip scanner into big data cluster while simple C program outperformed it greatly.
[–] troydavis 3y ago ↗ I'm not sure about the article, but the blazingly-fast IP scanner sounds a lot like Masscan: https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscanIt 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.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 16.0 ms ] threadIt 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.