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Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

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1135 points carride | 1 comments | 10 Aug 22 13:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Octoth0rpe ◴[10 Aug 22 13:45 UTC] No.32411808[source]▶
A couple of fun facts about this guy:

His little ISP is AS267, which is a SHOCKINGLY low number. That's like.. the ISP equiv of a 4 digit slashdot id, or owning something like sodapop.com.

He's also one of the authors of RFC 5575, which is a pretty big deal in the DDoS world.

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upupandup ◴[10 Aug 22 14:15 UTC] No.32412338[source]▶
can somebody ELI5? what is this code mean? what is RFC 5575?
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