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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

Netflix Tech

By Alok Tiagi , Hariharan Ananthakrishnan , Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan Netflix has developed a network observability sidecar called Flow Exporter that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time. Without having network visibility, it’s difficult to improve our reliability, security and capacity posture.

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Using Rust for Kentik’s New Synthetic Network Monitoring Agent

Kentik

We recently launched Kentik Synthetic Monitoring , a major new product feature that combines synthetic network testing with real-time traffic monitoring to provide thorough insight into network performance and reliability. Managing agents in Kentik Synthetic Monitoring.

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Bogons: Do not let them in or through your networks

CTOvision

With this post we will dive a bit deeper into bogosity in networks, paying particular attention to the fundamental element of bogosity, the Bogon. We will then articulate a use case for the Centripetal Networks RuleGate which can ensure bogons never get to your enterprise. Filtering private IP addresses requires only a few rules.

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Transparent Security Outperforms Traditional DDoS Solution in Lab Trial

CableLabs

P4”-based) and uses in-band network telemetry (INT) technology for device identification and mitigation, blocking attack traffic where it originates on the operator’s network. These factors contribute to a trend of malicious traffic increasingly using upstream bandwidth on the access network.

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All About BIND DNS: Who, How, & Why

Linux Academy

For small or uncomplicated networks, BIND by itself is well suited to provide all DNS-related service functions. Typically, the people who manage BIND DNS servers day to day are network administrators or system administrators who are comfortable in Linux/UNIX. Who Uses BIND? BIND also gives you very granular control over a DNS server.

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Facebook’s historic outage, explained

Kentik

According to a statement published last night, Facebook Engineering wrote, “Configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication.” That’s where network observability comes in. Facebook-owned WhatsApp didn’t fare much better.

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Microsoft’s August 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 88 CVEs

Tenable

Micsoft’s advisory does clarify that the Preview Pane is not an attack vector for this vulnerability and offers mitigation options to protect systems if immediate patching cannot be immediately performed. An attacker could remotely exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted IPv6 packets to a host.

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