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 ...

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 impact of the dwindling supply of IPv4 addresses will depend on how long it takes to deploy IPv6 fully. It is in that interim period that we'll see whether cloud computing can really fulfil its ...

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 ...

This is the first of many technical blog posts I’m going to post on IPv6 architecture and implementation for a Microsoft Windows-based environment. I started off with a basic introduction of the IPv4 ...

How to support transitional routing of IPv6 through IPv4 Configuring 6to4 and Teredo Configuring IP-HTTPS and Microsoft DirectAccess Understanding Tunnel Brokers This is the fifth technical blog post ...

The first thing you need to know is … don’t panic. The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 will be nothing like the prospect of Y2K in 1998-1999. However, it is a migration issue that you need to keep up to ...

The Number Resource Organization warns that less than 10 percent of the IPv4 address space remains; it's time to start adopting IPv6. The warning comes after APNIC, the registry that hands out IP ...

The body that controls the allocation of IP address blocks to regional internet registries has handed out the last blocks of Internet Protocol version 4 addresses. Businesses must be prepared to shift ...