In my past two columns I’ve talked about why implementing IPv6 on your network is a good idea, and delved deep into the IPv6 header. I’ll now conclude this series with a detailed look at IPv6 ...

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.

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 ...

IPv6 offers several ways that aren’t possible in IPv4 to assign IP addresses, and DNS set-up has differences as well. As IP technology has matured, the range of devices that the internet protocol ...

That's 2.56 decillion of them, destined for use in CDNs and the cloud – and APNIC needed 83 decillion more to handle the request Huawei has been allocated 2.56 decillion IPv6 addresses by regional ...

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 ...

Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governance Early in the history of the internet, the powers that be granted amateur radio operators over 16 million IPv4 addresses. Now a ...

Microsoft has been forced to start using its global stock of IPv4 addresses to keep its Azure cloud service afloat in the U.S., highlighting the growing importance of making the shift to IP version 6.

Belarus has become the first country in the world to legally mandate support for IPv6-- the latest version of the Internet Protocol, the glue that keeps the whole internet together. Starting January 1 ...