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 ...

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 ...

Some time last year, a weird thing happened in the hackerspace where this is being written. The Internet was up, and was blisteringly fast as always, but only a few websites worked. What was up?

In “automatic” tunneling, hybrid IPv4/IPv6 addresses are created by extending 32-bit IPv4 addresses to 128 bits by adding leading zeros. IPv6 packets are encapsulated within IPv4 headers, so that one ...

Operating dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 networks doesn’t just add complexity, it fundamentally doubles the protocol attack surfaces. Every device running both protocols creates two parallel, ...

Tanya Candia is an international management expert, specializing for more than 25 years in information security strategy and communication for public- and private-sector organizations. Domains that ...

Key features in StarlingX 10.0 include IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack support, a unified software management framework, and a new tool for collecting data about hardware usage in the platform. The Open ...

So, I'm switching over from cable internet (which supports ipv6) to fiber (Ting) which only has ipv4 support. With AWS now charging for all public ipv4 addresses used, I'm thinking about switching my ...

So with IPv6 celebrating its 29th birthday soon but IPv4 still going strong even though fresh IPv4 addresses haven't been available for a decade, I think it's time to learn from our mistakes and see ...

Experts say some Internet users will be unable to access websites that support both IPv6 and the current standard, IPv4 Yahoo is forging ahead with a move to IPv6 on its main website by year-end ...

What just happened? At the end of March, Google hit a long-anticipated milestone: half of its global users accessed services over IPv6. The moment marks the first time IPv6 traffic has reached parity ...