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Using Rust for Kentik’s New Synthetic Network Monitoring Agent

Kentik

Kentik runs a global network of agents available for immediate use by our customers, and customers are running private agents on their own systems. Ksynth uses raw sockets for ping and traceroutes, and supports both IPv4 and IPv6, which adds a considerable amount of complexity. Managing agents in Kentik Synthetic Monitoring.

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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. This provides you with more options in addition to the db.t2.micro

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Radar Trends to Watch: September 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A US judge has ruled that an AI system cannot copyright a work. AI systems are particularly bad at it. PhotoGuard is a tool for protecting photos and other images from manipulation by AI systems. AIxCC is a two year competition to build AI systems that can secure critical software. Patches for Linux have been released.

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Fascinating Facts from Kentik

Kentik

Cisco Systems is by far the market leader in the overall IT Networking sector. And how about the fact that Linux OSes show up in our Top 10 list as well? Google maintains Internet-wide stats on the overall IPv6 adoption rate. As of this writing, those numbers show that about 17% of traffic on the Internet is IPv6.

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DNS Resolution: A Primer

taos

Our technical interview spans virtually the entire breadth of topics that encompass the practice of systems administration. This essential service acts as the underpinning behind almost everything else a system does; when DNS goes away, your system is likely to be very, very unhappy. So from the top, “I’m on a Linux system.

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All About BIND DNS: Who, How, & Why

Linux Academy

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is a software collection of tools including the world’s most widely used DNS (Domain Name System) server software. The most recent major version, BIND 9, was initially released in 2000 and is regularly maintained by the Internet Systems Consortium. BIND: A Short History. Benefits of Using BIND.

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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. What is Network Performance Monitoring (NPM)?

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