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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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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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All About BIND DNS: Who, How, & Why

Linux Academy

This feature-full implementation of DNS service and tools aims to be 100% standards-compliant and is; intended to serve as a reference architecture for DNS software. Typically, the people who manage BIND DNS servers day to day are network administrators or system administrators who are comfortable in Linux/UNIX. Benefits of Using BIND.

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Radar Trends to Watch: September 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

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

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New Features and Benefits with AWS – Quarterly Update – Q2– 2022

Apps Associates

Price reductions on Amazon EC2 instances running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) OS – Starting May 28 th , 2022 there will be a price reduction on SLES On-Demand EC2 instances which can result in savings of up to 24% vs. the current On-Demand rates. Before today, customers could add up to 5 IPv4 CIDR blocks and 1 IPv6 block.

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