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Who is resolving my names?
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What Does It Take To Resolve A Hostname
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| | Resolving hostnames (DNS?) might not seem like it, but it's complicated. Let's take a moment to see if we can at least demystify what happens on the client side instead of seeing it as a big tangled mess of configurations, libraries, and tools.
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Don't use `nscd`
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| | `nscd`, a local DNS resolver within `glibc`, is non-standard. Instead, use a local DNS server like `named` or `dnscache`.
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Resolving Windows NetBIOS names in Linux | Carey Metcalfe
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| | Resolving Windows NetBIOS names in Linux | When accessing computers on a LAN, it's often useful to access them by name instead of IP. This is especially...
| | gafferongames.com
Sending and Receiving Packets | Gaffer On Games
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| Hello readers, I'm no longer posting new content on gafferongames.com Please check out my new blog at mas-bandwidth.com! Introduction Hi, I'm Glenn Fiedler and welcome to Networking for Game Programmers. In the previous article we discussed options for sending data between computers and decided to use UDP instead of TCP for time critical data. In this article I am going to show you how to send and receive UDP packets.