A Trip to Netville & The Hidden Latency of DNS
•4 min read•By Packet Pilot
Why is DNS sometimes slow? It's just like finding an address in a new town. We break down the chain of DNS lookups and show why caching is the most important solution.
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When Redis 5.0 Refused to Build — and How I Fixed the Linker Error
•5 min read•By Packet Pilot
I needed to build Redis 5.0 on Ubuntu 22.04, hit a baffling multiple-definition linker error, and fixed it by converting a header-side definition into a proper extern declaration. Here’s the step-by-step diagnosis and the simple patch that saved the day.