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 ...

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 ...

With many organisations moving to IPv6, there could be monitoring issues and consequences for those that still use IPv4 ...

The document covers technical requirements for using the new internet protocol, as well as security considerations for the new format. Federal agencies are on the ...

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 ...

Almost from inception, the adoption and usage of the internet have grown at a rapid rate. Various sources estimate a growth rate of around 9% per year to nearly 5 billion users in 2021, more than ...

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 ...

IPv6’s 340 undecillion addresses eliminate these constraints and enable architectures impossible in IPv4. Attack Surface Reduction The IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack mode of operation sustain vulnerability ...

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 ...

The time for IPv4 to IPv6 transition has finally arrived after more than a decade of forewarning. On Feb. 1, 2011, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last freely available ...

In recent times, the two technologies that jointly brought ubiquitous online connectivity to the world have confronted existential difficulties brought on by their own success. IPv4 (Internet Protocol ...

I'm looking for more information about having IPv4-only devices (embedded, legacy, etc) on a network that is otherwise IPv6-only, with IPv6-only Internet access. It's academic at this point, but I can ...