Word around the net is that there's a new website technology that allows for a faster, safer web browsing experience, and it's called IPv6. As it turns out, this protocol isn't new at all, but instead ...

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 usage reaches 50% across Google services ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever been configuring a router or other network device and noticed that you can set up IPv4 and IPv6, you might have wondered what happened to IPv5. Well, thanks to [Navek], you don’t have ...

Statistics from Google show a steady rise in global IPv6 usage, climbing from near zero in early 2012 to 50.1% on March 28, ...

Any general-use IP protocol stack that supports IPv6 also supports IPv4. That is, it is dual stack capable. “General-use” is an important qualifier here: Certainly there will be specialized devices ...

Like it or lump it, you're going to need to add IPv6 to your network. Here's how to start. Some people still think they don’t need to worry about the growing shortage of Internet IPv4 addresses and ...

Many hackers have familiar sayings in their heads, such as “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and KISS (Keep it simple, stupid). Those of us who have been in the field for some time have habits that ...

Is your company ready to start using IPv6 addresses for its Internet addresses? You'd better be. The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is down to its last allotment of old-style IPv4 ...

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 ...