EDN

IPv4 and IPv6 Addressing – Part 2: The network/host boundary and the IPv4 address

We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...
EDN

IPv4 and IPv6 Addressing – Part 3: The IPv6 address

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 ...
Network World

I Remember When I Used a Public IPv4 Address

I don’t know about you, but it has been a long time since my laptop was assigned a public IPv4 address. Most of the time my laptop has a private RFC1918 IPv4 address. Rarely does my computer have a ...
Ars Technica

River of IPv4 addresses officially runs dry

In a ceremony in Miami this morning, the final five blocks of IPv4 addresses were given out to the five Regional Internet Registries that further distribute IP addresses to the far corners of the ...