In addition to IPv4 (often written as just IP), there is IP version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 was developed as IPng (“IP:The Next Generation” because the developers were supposedly fans of the TV show “Star Trek ...

Let’s take a long hard look at an IPv6 address. Amazon supply IPv6 addresses with their EC2 cloud computers. When you fire up an EC2 virtual machine, you get an IPv6 address like this.

We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...

The Number Resource Organization warned Monday that the number of available IPv4 addresses had slipped below 10 percent, with one service predicting that the available addresses will expire in a bit ...

Suppose that an Internet host is dual stacked with an IPV4 and an IPV6 address. Can an A record and a quad A or an A6 record point to the same name? For example: ipv6.example.com. IN CNAME example.com ...

Now that IPv6 is imminent, you’ll need some IPv6 address space. Working with ARIN to request IPv6 differs from IPv4 procedures. Now that IPv6 is imminent, you’ll need some IPv6 address space. Working ...

Something is happening in IPv6, the next generation Internet Protocol that’s been waiting in the wings for the best part of a decade. Google has been allocated an address range, marking the start of ...

With interest in IPv6 accelerating and adoption heating up more attention is being paid to address planning, but where do you start? Organizations should already be working toward securing an ...

More than 400 organizations and Internet giants participated Wednesday in a trial run of a new addressing system, called Internet Protocol version 6, known as IPv6. Hari Sreenivasan reports on World ...

Norway is leading the way in preparing for the move to the net's new addressing scheme, a survey has shown. The survey comes a month before <link> <caption>World IPv6 ...