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How to find applications with NetFlow

Kentik

You can also learn about the protocols in use, the ports being used, the top interfaces, etc. IP protocol. Source port for UDP or TCP, 0 for other protocols. Destination port for UDP or TCP, type and code for ICMP, or 0 for other protocols. NetFlow application monitoring: Use DNS logs. Octets (bytes).

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What is a TCP Port: Different Between TCP and UDP Ports

NW Kings

Understanding TCP ports is essential for managing network traffic and ensuring effective communication. But what is a TCP port? This blog will delve into what a TCP port is, how it works, its significance in networking, and the different types of ports, including well-known and dynamic ports. What is a TCP Port?

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Facebook’s historic outage, explained

Kentik

Included in the withdrawn prefixes were the IP addresses of Facebook’s authoritative DNS servers, rendering them unreachable. Below, Kentik’s versatile Data Explorer illustrates how traffic from Facebook’s platform changed over the course of the day when broken down by protocol.

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What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago? Centralized wins. Decentralized loses.

High Scalability

In the early days of the internet the internet was protocol driven, decentralized, and often distributed—FTP (1971), Telnet (<1973), FINGER (1971/1977), TCP/IP (1974), UUCP (late 1970s) NNTP (1986), DNS (1983), SMTP (1982), IRC(1988), HTTP(1990), Tor (mid-1990s), Napster(1999), and XMPP(1999).

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How to measure the performance of a website

Kentik

Domain lookup time : When a connection is made to a domain, the local operating system must first reach out to the DNS to resolve that hostname to an IP address. Where is the DNS? Is your PC using a DNS on the same local area network as your computer? The use of ICMP vs. TCP or UDP to carry the ping can also be a factor.

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What’s new in Cloudflare: MASQUE now powers 1.1.1.1 & WARP apps, DEX now generally available with Remote Captures

CloudFaire

Todays roundup blog post shares two exciting updates across our platform: our cross-platform 1.1.1.1 & WARP applications (consumer) and device agents (Zero Trust) now use MASQUE , a cutting-edge HTTP/3 -based protocol, to secure your Internet connection. well-known/masque/ip/*/*/ :authority = example.org capsule-protocol = ?1

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Why latency is the new outage

Kentik

Packet loss in TCP connections results in retransmissions which can introduce significant latency. Below is the beginning of a TCP handshake. After the DNS lookup and the ARP, the host reaches out to the IP address of the destination using a SYN in order to open a connection. Router hops introduce the most. Speaking of which….

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