Just before year's end, ICANN/IANA sent out a short message saying that "on 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses of the four root servers whose operators have requested ...

Several folks have written to comment on the 250% increase in overhead I attributed to IPv6 in my previous column on the topic. They’re right. The number is overstated, for a rather embarrassing ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Now that World IPv6 Day (June 8) is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the ...

Illustration: Elizabeth Hinshaw Brett Thorson, a network scientist for RavenWing in Herndon, Va., is an integration and security adviser with the North American IPv6 Task Force. You might not realize ...

The solution is Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), which is being deployed as we speak (don’t ask what happened to IPv5). IPv6 uses 128-bit (16-byte) addresses, so the new address space supports 2 ...

Q: You said you would provide your readers with a way to test their computer equipment for IPv6 readiness. What does this entail? A: Last week, I covered the basics ...

In addition to IPv4 (often written as just IP), there is IP version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 was developed as IPng (“IP:The Next Generation” because the developers were supposedly fans of the TV show “Star Trek ...

Q: A friend told me that my computer is not IPv6 compatible. What does this mean? A: An internet protocol address identifies a specific piece of hardware on a network. Each device must have one unique ...

What you need to know about the format of the 4-byte ASN, how it interoperates with 2-byte ASNs, and how to prepare your network for them. For all the harping I do on this blog about IPv4 address ...

This story originally appeared in TV Technology. Now that World IPv6 Day (June 8) is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the Internet didn’t collapse when major companies including ...