Friday I posed an open-ended IPv6 addressing question. Today I’ll start working towards the solution – but more importantly, I want to find out whether you personally, if you were preparing for the ...

The great migration from IPv4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after ICANN added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version of the internet protocol. On Monday, ICANN, the ...

The format of an IP address in the newer 128-bit version of the IP protocol. Unlike IPv4's four sets of numbers separated by dots, IP addresses in IPv6 are represented as eight sets of four ...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, May 15, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As organizations worldwide navigate the complex IPv4 to IPv6 transition, managing both address protocols ...

As I'm ramping up with IPv6 here I keep running into plenty of "how should this be done?" moments. End user subnets are easy, enable SLAAC, some DHCPv6 for DNS and let the hosts pick their own ...

Customers noticed when BT tinkered with its network to test IPv6 equipment BT has started trials of the next version of the net's addressing scheme known as IP version 6. The global addressing system ...

There are a few culprits that regularly contribute to delayed or failed IPv6 deployment projects, such as poor DNS planning, insufficient testing, unanticipated application behavior, and poor IPv6 ...

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 ...

IPv6 address autoconfiguration, particularly through Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) and Duplicate Address Detection (DAD), is a critical component ensuring seamless network connectivity.

Just about everyone in the IT business has heard the promises of IPv6. Why continue leasing Class A blocks to individual companies when most companies have to beg for a Class C block of 256 IP ...

Twenty years ago, the fastest Internet backbone links were 1.5Mbps. Today we argue whether that’s a fast enough minimum to connect home users. In 1993, 1.3 million machines were connected to the ...

The global addressing system needs to be updated because the older scheme, IPv4, is running out of space. The small-scale trial involves BT staff being switched to a network that runs only on IPv6 ...