Networking

*It Worked Before*: How an OS Upgrade Broke My Rust Sockets

It Worked Before: How an OS Upgrade Broke My Rust Sockets

I didn’t change a single line of code. I just upgraded my OS, and suddenly my Rust tool was dead. The error was blunt: Error: Address family not …

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Beyond the Port: How the OS Actually Binds and Connects

Beyond the Port: How the OS Actually Binds and Connects

When I first started learning networking, I thought a ‘Port’ was just like a physical socket on the back of a server. You plug a process …

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Beyond 127.0.0.1: You Own 16 Million Loopback Addresses

Beyond 127.0.0.1: You Own 16 Million Loopback Addresses

Many developers use localhost and 127.0.0.1 interchangeably, assuming loopback is limited to a single address. However, the IPv4 specification …

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5 Essential Network Debugging Commands in Minimal Linux

5 Essential Network Debugging Commands in Minimal Linux

[Last update date: October 30, 2025]

If you’re a developer troubleshooting network issues in containers or minimal Linux environments, you may notice that many common tools like …

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