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Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8)

The article discusses the revival of stalled development on OpenBSD's relayd(8) and httpd(8) daemons, which had been neglected by established OpenBSD developers. The author and a collaborator, kirill@, took up the work driven by real-world customer needs and a personal desire to challenge themselves with C programming again.

Background

relayd(8) is an OpenBSD reverse proxy and load balancer, while httpd(8) is OpenBSD's built-in web server. Both are core networking daemons in the OpenBSD base system.

Source
Lobsters
Published
Aug 1, 2026 at 01:13 AM
Score
5.0 / 10