On Wednesday 15 September 2004 11:08, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
Oh my heavens! A famous person! :) Did you know that you have been
immortalised in the /etc/hosts files of Slackware Linux? I started with
Slackware in '99 and have come across your name regularly ever since --
but not quite as often now that I run my own DNS. :)
> > That's the part I don't know, but I've heard that connecting to a
> > socket differs from making a TCP connection to localhost.
>
> (They're both sockets. There are many kinds of sockets, including TCP
> sockets and unix-domain ones.)
>
> Yes, there is a difference. A TCP connection to localhost uses a
Thanks for the explanation.
> There's also a small performance difference. Which side is faster
> depends on OS and version. Doesn't matter, anyway, they're both far
> too fast to ever be a bottleneck.
I'm sure, but if you were running something like this on a large scale
you would surely want to choose correctly. 100 simultaneous TCP
connections to localhost might not be noticeable, but when you're in
the 1000 or 10000 arenas things are probably different.
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