86: Take Quite a Long Time to Fail
Here’s a chunk of the networking book.
Standard netstat attempts to show hostnames instead of IP addresses. This means your server performs a reverse DNS lookup on every IP address it exchanges traffic with. On a busy server, this might mean hundreds or thousands of lookups. The output pauses for each lookup. Many hosts have no reverse DNS, so these lookups can take quite a long time before they fail.
Service names also appear with a human-friendly name rather than a port number whenever possible. It gathers this information from the services file. This results in a mix of named ports…
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