The shortage of IPv4 addresses has reached a critical stage, according to the registries that allocate internet numbers around the world. The Number Resource Organization (NRO), which represents the ...

Brocade, citing the major impact the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 will have on service providers' ability to offer cloud-based services, this week introduced solutions for helping manage the ...

Almost from inception, the adoption and usage of the internet have grown at a rapid rate. Various sources estimate a growth rate of around 9% per year to nearly 5 billion users in 2021, more than ...

In the world of networking, most people are familiar with IPv4. These numerical labels, like 192.168.2.1, have been used to identify devices for decades and have been the primary addressing scheme ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

All are assigned static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. One of the Server 2008 SP2 boxes also runs DHCPv4 and 6. DNS works just fine. If I ping by name, I am typically returned the IPv6 address of that ...

As the operator of some of the core Internet name servers, including the DNS root, .com and .net, Verisign has a unique view into the challenges of transitioning to IPv6 and progress to date. The ...

I’ve written about IPv6 address design previously, and in that post I briefly touched on the fact that our long-ingrained habits of IPv4 address design can lead us astray when working with IPv6. I’d ...

So, I'm switching over from cable internet (which supports ipv6) to fiber (Ting) which only has ipv4 support. With AWS now charging for all public ipv4 addresses used, I'm thinking about switching my ...