https://blog.thalamus.am/tag/networking/Recent content in Networking on ThalamusHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USThalamus TMSun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.thalamus.am/posts/the-200-that-nobody-received/Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.thalamus.am/posts/the-200-that-nobody-received/<img src="https://blog.thalamus.am/posts/the-200-that-nobody-received/editorial-cover.png" alt="Featured image of post The 200 that nobody received" /><p>Clients of <code>api.thalamus.am</code> were occasionally timing out. The gateway access log showed successful requests.</p> <p>The request had arrived. The upstream had answered. The log recorded a 200. There was no obvious pattern by endpoint or time of day, and the failures were rare enough to disappear into otherwise healthy dashboards.</p> <p>I spent too long looking for an application error. The useful question turned out to be: which machines did the connection depend on after the application had done its work?</p>