The great migration from IPv4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after ICANN added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version of the internet protocol. On Monday, ICANN, the ...

The Number Resource Organization warned Monday that the number of available IPv4 addresses had slipped below 10 percent, with one service predicting that the available addresses will expire in a bit ...

At last, a small set of unicast addresses have been defined for special use. They do not carry a scope, so they are discussed independently of the other unicast addresses. Two basic addresses carry ...

BT has started trialling IPv6 in small regions of the UK, alongside its usual IPv4 network. This comes a few weeks after Sky started pushing out a firmware update to enable IPv6 on some customers' ...

We’ve seen internet-enabled holiday displays before, and we know IPv6 offers much more space than the older IPv4 addressing scheme that most of us still use today, but the two have never been more ...

There are a few culprits that regularly contribute to delayed or failed IPv6 deployment projects, such as poor DNS planning, insufficient testing, unanticipated application behavior, and poor IPv6 ...

Although IPv6 adoption seems to be moving at a snail's pace, there's no outrunning it. Brien Posey demystifies some of the addressing issues many admins are still trying to figure out. [Editor’s note: ...

IPv6 is the new Internet Protocol (IP) for identification and location of computers on networks and Internet traffic routing. I’ve been waiting for it now for years but nothing ever seems to happen. I ...