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All About BIND DNS: Who, How, & Why

Linux Academy

Typically, the people who manage BIND DNS servers day to day are network administrators or system administrators who are comfortable in Linux/UNIX. IPv6 : Support IPv6 both by publishing IPv6 addresses for names and by participating directly in IPv6 networking. Benefits of Using BIND. BIND is customizable.

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Using Rust for Kentik’s New Synthetic Network Monitoring Agent

Kentik

Ksynth uses raw sockets for ping and traceroutes, and supports both IPv4 and IPv6, which adds a considerable amount of complexity. However, IPv6 raw sockets do not have direct access to the IP header, instead ancillary data must be passed to sendmsg. IPv4 raw sockets are able to send the full packet starting with the IP header.

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Scaling BGP Peering in Kentik's SaaS Environment

Kentik

we never initiate connections to the customers) on servers running Debian GNU/Linux. IPv6 peerings are starting to outgrow a single node. It also allowed mirroring the setup for our IPv6 fabric. We started by setting the requirements, including that we: Should support both IPv4 and IPv6.

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Introducing Cloud Playground: Even More Hands-On Training Features

Linux Academy

I’m happy to announce that Cloud Playground is now available on Linux Academy! Seven years ago we launched our first Cloud Servers interface providing the ability for Linux Academy students to spin up virtual machines on demand as part of their membership. Upgraded interface and server logs.

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Radar Trends to Watch: September 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Patches for Linux have been released. Among other things, this change is intended to accelerate IPv6 adoption. Adoption of RISC-V, a royalty-free open source instruction set architecture for microprocessors, has been increasing. Could it displace ARM ? Amazon has announced that they will begin charging for public IPv4 addresses.

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DNS Resolution: A Primer

taos

So from the top, “I’m on a Linux system. On Linux specifically, the browser will call getaddrinfo()² to spark up the system’s internal resolver. 2] Note this used to be gethostbyname(), and became getaddrinfo() due to the need for IPv6 support. I punch taos.wpengine.com into a web browser¹ and press enter.

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RouterFreak on Kentik Network Performance Monitoring

Kentik

Kentik’s NPM solution goes beyond typical NetFlow traffic analysis in that it is enabled through the installation of an nProbe application on Linux based servers. Another great feature of nProbe is the availability for Linux, Windows and embedded system such as ARM and MIPS/MIPSEL. Last but not least, both IPv4 and IPv6 are available.

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