TL;DR: this post introduces LF in detail and provides a little bit of back story on its development. You can head over to GitHub if you just want to jump in and give it a spin. Also see threads at…
ZeroTier 1.4.0pre (1.2.99)
We’re preparing to release 1.4.0 and would like people to give it a try. We’ve created Windows and Mac installer packages for a pre-release we’ve numbered 1.2.99 (which is really 1.4.0pre). The most important new feature in 1.4.0 is multipath…
State of the ZeroTier Address
Greetings ZeroTier users! This is ZeroTier Founder Adam Ierymenko and it’s about time for me to deliver a much-belated update on our current status and our future plans. First: no, we are not dead! Quite the opposite. We’ve had too…
The Horror in the Standard Library
This describes a nasty and definitely absolutely real bug in GNU libstdc++ that existed as of the time of this post. We’re not sure if it still does. About a week ago many users may have noticed instability on our…
Capability Based Security for Virtual Networks
The next major release of ZeroTier’s network virtualization engine (1.2.0) is a huge milestone. In addition to other improvements, our virtual networks will be getting a lot smarter. It will now be possible to set fine-grained rules and permissions and…
The ZeroTier SDK: P2P Apps With Standard Protocols
As of this week it is now possible to connect desktop and mobile apps to virtual networks with the ZeroTier SDK. With our SDK applications can now communicate peer to peer with other instances of themselves, other apps, and devices using…
Meet Alice and Bob: The New Root Server Infrastructure
ZeroTier is growing, and to facilitate that growth we’ve just made a significant upgrade to our root server infrastructure. While the ZeroTier network is peer to peer, it relies upon a set of designated core nodes whose role and responsibility…
Introducing Network Containers
This describes the effort that eventually led to libzt. TL;DR: If you’re going to put the network in user space, then put the network in user space. For the past six months we’ve been heads-down at ZeroTier, completely buried in…
The State of NAT Traversal
For those who don’t know, NAT stands for Network Address Translation. If you’re on a typical network, your system probably has an IP address like 10.1.2.3or 192.168.0.66. These are private IPs. They are not your real Internet IP address. Between you and the network…