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Build Your Own DNS Forwarder

A DNS Forwarder is a nameserver used to resolve DNS queries instead of directly using the authoritative nameserver chain. Often they are used to sit on the edge of a local area network and provide DNS resolution to the computers on the network, reducing external traffic and speeding up external access by serving the answer from a local cache.

Build Your Own Memcached Server

This challenge is to build your own Memcached server. Memcached is a free, open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system. It is intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by reducing database load.

Build Your Own Netcat

This challenge is to build your own version of netcat. Netcat - which is usually abbreviated to nc is a command line networking utility for reading and writing to network connections with TCP or UDP.

Build Your Own Redis CLI Tool

In this Coding Challenge we’re going to build a CLI tool to send commands to a Redis server, it’s a nice challenge to complement the build your own Redis challenge. If you’re not familiar with Redis you can learn all about it in that challenge.

Build Your Own Socat

This challenge is to build your own version of the Unix command line tool socat. It’s name is a combination of the words SOcket CAT as it is in effect a version of cat that works over socks too.