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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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DNS Resolution: A Primer

taos

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. On Linux specifically, the browser will call getaddrinfo()² to spark up the system’s internal resolver. One focus area that I like to spend a bit of time on is DNS.

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All About BIND DNS: Who, How, & Why

Linux Academy

Typically, the people who manage BIND DNS servers day to day are network administrators or system administrators who are comfortable in Linux/UNIX. While each view is typically treated as a separate virtual server, in recent years BIND has added features to make it easier to share data between views. Benefits of Using BIND.

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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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Scaling BGP Peering in Kentik's SaaS Environment

Kentik

we never initiate connections to the customers) on servers running Debian GNU/Linux. IPv6 peerings are starting to outgrow a single node. It also allowed mirroring the setup for our IPv6 fabric. We started by setting the requirements, including that we: Should support both IPv4 and IPv6.

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