The world has passed it by in many ways, yet it remains relevant Feature In the early 1990s, internetworking wonks realized ...

In this chapter, you will learn about the addressing used in IPv4 and IPv6. We'll assign addresses of both types to various interfaces on the hosts and routers of the Illustrated Network. We'll ...

How to statically address a Windows 2008 / Windows 2008 R2 Server How to statically address a Windows 7 Client System How to setup DNS for IPv6 on a Windows 2008 R2 ...

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 ...

Although IPv6 adoption seems to be moving at a snail's pace, there's no outrunning it. Brien Posey demystifies some of the addressing issues many admins are still trying to figure out. [Editor’s note: ...

Internet service providers (ISPs) are running out of public IPv4 addresses and want to move away from IPv4 in their internal network. Mapping of Address and Port with Encapsulation (MAP-E), an IPv6 ...

A survey, conducted by the European Commission, found that few companies are prepared for the switch from the current naming protocol, IPv4, to the new regime, IPv6. Web experts have warned that we ...

Web experts pronounce doom for web addresses - the world is at the risk of running out of web addresses in the next two years if business and government organizations do not switch to another level of ...

When the ARPANET was designed in the late 1960s, it was outfitted with a Network Control Protocol (NCP) that made it possible for the very different types of hosts connected to the network to talk ...

Psst! Wanna buy a used IP address? In as little as 18 months, the world may run out of IP addresses, which could lead to the emergence of an illicit market in IP address trafficking, says John Curran, ...