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EP145: Infrastructure as Code Landscape

ByteByteGo

DNS lookup begins (think of it as looking up a phone number). The request goes through different DNS servers (root, TLD, and authoritative). Next, your browser initiates a TCP connection like a handshake. the client and server perform a TCP three-way handshake with SYN, SYN-ACK, and ACK messages.

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Heavy Networking 638: Don’t Block DNS Over TCP

Packet Pushers

DNS is our subject on today's Heavy Networking. More specifically, DNS transport over TCP. We talk with John Kristoff, one of the forces behind RFC9210, which covers the operational requirements for DNS transport over TCP. This is not an esoteric document covering a tiny, nuanced DNS use case.

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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Included in the withdrawn prefixes were the IP addresses of Facebook’s authoritative DNS servers, rendering them unreachable. For example, in IPv4, Facebook authoritative server a.ns.facebook.com resolves to the address 129.134.30.12 which is routed as 129.134.30.0/24 24 and 129.134.30.0/23.

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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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How to find applications with NetFlow

Kentik

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. If you are thinking that those represent HTTP and HTTPS, you would be largely correct, but that doesn’t mean it’s traffic involving web servers. NetFlow application monitoring: Use DNS logs.

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How to measure the performance of a website

Kentik

To be more specific: slowness can be introduced as your digital connection traverses your PC, the local wifi/wired connection, the local ISP, the Tier 1 or Tier 2 provider, or the CDN that provides the hardware which hosts the web server running the application. Where is the DNS? This would cut time off the test.

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NPM, encryption, and the challenges ahead: Part 1 of 2

Kentik

Once you saw a person’s password to any given application, you knew they were generally using the same one for all of their other applications — email, the ticketing system, the FTP and Novell servers, etc. Getting all the DNS logs is often impractical. Is Google hijacking DNS with DoH? HTTP is the new TCP.