Why it matters: HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the system that web browsers use to talk to servers, and it's built using Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). TCP has many features that make it ...

Security practitioners for decades have advised people to limit DNS queries against their DNS servers to only use UDP port 53. The reality is that DNS queries can also use TCP port 53 if UDP port 53 ...

PortExpert is a free application that can give very useful information about all TCP, UDP communications connected to the system and is hence useful to identify potential threats. These days we are ...

An industry group of the world's biggest DNS service providers has agreed on a plan to improve the state of the DNS ecosystem by forcing certain configuration changes upon the smaller server operators ...

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 ...

You've installed a VPN. It's not quite as fast as you'd like. You could switch to another service, but maybe there's a simple speedup trick you can try first. Open ...

I'm going to tell you a UDP joke. I don't care if you get it or not. TCP Joke: A: Hi, i'd like to tell you a TCP joke. B: Okay, i'd like to hear your TCP joke. A: Sure, are ready to hear my TCP joke?

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