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It's not complicated, but that's also going to take more time , cpu power, and memory bandwidth to do so than just recording dns packets. When you need to do that to millions or billions of connections per second the costs start to really add up.



It’s just bitmask and slicing basically, that would work just fine even on hosts with obscene amounts of traffic.




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