The move from the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addressing scheme to the new and vastly more expansive IPv6 has been going on so long that it is becoming more like a tradition than a transition.

Imagine for a moment that there were a nation-wide shortage of phone numbers. The 10-digit numbering scheme just isn’t cutting it anymore. The powers that be decide to expand the scheme, but rather ...

On Feb. 3, 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that the last remaining Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) IP addresses had been allocated, although it may ...

In this era of the World Wide Web, we often use the term "hyper" to describe mega or massive scale: Hyperlinking, hyperspeed, and hyperthreading all spring to mind. Yet there's one area of hypergrowth ...

These guidelines will help your organization prepare for the transition from the IPv4 addressing scheme to the more expansive IPv6 model. Many organizations may end up running both IPv4 and IPv6 for a ...

APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) has requested and is receiving two large blocks of IPv4 addresses, which is triggering the release of the final five blocks to the five regional ...

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 ...