A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.

Like a dangerous intersection that has existed for years, sometimes it takes a death or other tragic warning to spur people to action. Such a warning came earlier this year, when the last of the ...

With the exponential rise of internet devices throughout the world, it comes to no surprise that IPv4 will no longer be suitable for the large demand of network connectivity. That is why we have IPv6, ...

IT professionals need to be getting their networks ready for Internet Protocol version 6. It's an imperative even though nothing much seemed to break after the World IPv6 Launch event took place on ...

David Kriegman is president of Command Federal (www.commandfederal.com), a provider of network, application and information assurance solutions to the federal government. The company is the federal ...

My whole life, I've never worried about ipv6. I know what it is, and why it's important, but for my local networks, it's just been easier to keep using ipv4. My current setup is pretty basic: I have ...

ANALYSIS - World IPv6 Day is here, and with it many ISPs, websites and manufacturers are now supporting IPv6, the next generation network protocol of the internet. For many users, though, the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. “Don’t panic!” The classic line from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy could easily apply to ...

IPv6, the next-generation Internet Protocol version designated as the successor to IPv4, is here to stay, spurred by an estimated 22 billion networked devices in use by 2020, government mandates and ...

So I thought I'd create DNS records for my Linode so that the websites it hosts are accesible via IPv6. My linode has a xxxxxx.members.linode.com A record pointing to its IPv4 address. I like to set ...