The procedure that takes place between two TCP/IP nodes to establish a connection. Known as the "SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK handshake," computer A transmits a SYNchronize packet to computer B, which sends back ...

Some of the most commonly-used firewalls are subject to a hacker exploit that lets an attacker trick a firewall and get into an internal network as a trusted IP connection. More on security: 20 hot IT ...

Cloudflare processes 60 million HTTP requests per second, of which about 70% are TCP connections and about 30% are UDP/QUIC connections. Of these, only about 80% of data exchanges are actually ...

When I use the netstat command to look at the open TCP/IP connections on my PC, there are connections that should be closed that are in the TIME_WAIT state. What is this, and why do connections stay ...

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I have a VM in EC2 that has been running dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 successfully for over a year now, but things have recently broken on the IPv6 side. My VPC has a /20 block in RFC1918 space, and a /64 ...

Google, as is its wont, is always trying to make the World Wide Web go faster. To that end, Google in 2009 unveiled SPDY, a networking protocol that reduces latency and is now being built into HTTP ...