IPv6 offers several ways that aren’t possible in IPv4 to assign IP addresses, and DNS set-up has differences as well. As IP technology has matured, the range of devices that the internet protocol ...

The world is running out of IPv4 addresses – the familiar 32-bit numerical addresses used to represent the identity of every Internet-connected device in the world. The African Network Information ...

Many believe that warnings about the perils of running out of IPV4 addresses can safely be ignored–that like the Y2K machinations of the last century, they are much ado about nothing. After all, you ...

Security by obscurity is real. Sucuri's CTO found that while IPv4 servers can get compromised in minutes, IPv6 servers are safe from attack because no one is looking for them Security company Sucuri ...

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 ...

The Number Resource Organization warns that less than 10 percent of the IPv4 address space remains; it's time to start adopting IPv6. The warning comes after APNIC, the registry that hands out IP ...

So in 1996, a new version IPv6, was created. This has enough addresses for the entire universe; the idea was that as it got adopted, first in the backbones and then out to the edges of the network, ...

With the Internet’s largest-ever upgrade looming, network operators are using up address space based on the current standard — known as IPv4 — much faster than they are adopting IPv6, the ...

Today, the last current-generation Internet addresses were divvied up at the highest level. Here's a look at what happens next in rebuilding the Net with the newer IPv6. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Just about everyone in the IT business has heard the promises of IPv6. Why continue leasing Class A blocks to individual companies when most companies have to beg for a Class C block of 256 IP ...

On Feb. 3, 2011, the central pool of available IPv4 addresses managed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) was depleted when each Regional Internet Registry (RIR) received its last IPv4 ...

So I know there are much better was to do this and far from the best idea but here it goes. I have 2 networks, both using the same private IP block, managed by there own instances of pfsense. They ...