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DNS Resolution: A Primer

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Senior Technical Consultant A part of what I do at Taos involves interviewing prospective consultants for our Unix/DevOps practice via a thorough technical assessment. Our technical interview spans virtually the entire breadth of topics that encompass the practice of systems administration. So from the top, “I’m on a Linux system.

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Optimizing Long?—?Haul TCP Throughout

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These are networks with high throughput (generally in excess of 10 megabits), but with high latency (due to geographic distance and speed-of-light delays). Window Scaling IETF RFC 1323 defines TCP window scaling, as an optional feature to improve performance over “Long, Fat Networks”.

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