Current IP addresses use the IPv4 format, which assigns users an IP address using four numbers, each from 1 to 256. (8.8.8.8 is an available DNS server IP address administered by Google, for ...

Working with ARIN to request IPv6 differs from IPv4 procedures Whenever I help a company deploy IPv6, the first question I’m asked is how to get provider independent IPv6 address space from ARIN.

Suppose that an Internet host is dual stacked with an IPV4 and an IPV6 address. Can an A record and a quad A or an A6 record point to the same name? For example: blue.example.com. IN A 10.4.4.4 ...

Today is World IPv6 Day. Don't worry, you don't need to send a card -- it's just a 24-hour test by Google, Facebook and many other websites of a new way of connecting to the Web.

Something is happening in IPv6, the next generation Internet Protocol that’s been waiting in the wings for the best part of a decade. Google has been allocated an address range, marking the ...

More than 400 organizations and Internet giants participated Wednesday in a trial run of a new addressing system, called Internet Protocol version 6, known as IPv6. Hari Sreenivasan reports on ...

IPv4 addresses will get very expensive at that point and then, maybe, we'll get off the dime and move to IPv6 in earnest. Until then, enjoy the dancing turtle.

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

To see how far the world has got in converting to the new scheme, Ripe Ncc, which oversees IP addresses in Europe, has been logging which networks have announced that they can handle IPv6 traffic ...