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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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Radar Trends to Watch: September 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

txtai is an open source embeddings database. Astro is yet another open source web framework that’s designed for high performance and ease of development. Bitwarden has released an open source end-to-end encrypted secrets manager. Patches for Linux have been released. for their own applications.

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All About BIND DNS: Who, How, & Why

Linux Academy

Originally written in the 1980s at the University of California’s Berkeley campus, BIND is a free and open-source software package. 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. BIND is customizable.

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