Executives from ICANN and beyond watch the last current-generation Internet addresses depart--and warn about consequences of extending the IPv4-based Net. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

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 ...

Many enterprises use OSPF version 2 for their internal IPv4 routing protocol. OSPF has gone through changes over the years and the protocol has been adapted to work with IPv6. As organizations start ...

At a press event in Miami, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) along with the Internet Society, the Internet Architecture Board, and the Number Resources Organization ...

The time for IPv4 to IPv6 transition has finally arrived after more than a decade of forewarning. On Feb. 1, 2011, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last freely available ...

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 ...

If you are using Internet or almost any computer network you will likely using IPv4 packets. IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out of addresses but have ...

Most migrations from IPv4 to IPv6 will occur gradually over networks that contain a mix of IPv4 and IPv6 routers and hosts. Companies wishing to facilitate the transition should ensure that all new ...

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 ...

Security by obscurity is real. Sucuri's CTO found that while IPv4 servers can get compromised in minutes, IPv6 servers are safe from attack because no one is looking for them Security company Sucuri ...