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

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) warns that moving from IPv4 to IPv6 is a process fraught with peril, which may explain why government agencies are so far behind their own ...

Preparing for the eventual widespread conversion to IPv6, the Nmap Project has updated its namesake security scanning tool so it can scan IPv6 networks using a variety of novel techniques. Nmap ...

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the most widely used communications protocol. Because it is the most pervasive communication technology, it is the focus of hundreds of thousands of IT professionals like ...

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 ...

IPv6—the next-generation Internet protocol—isn’t keeping too many U.S. CIOs and network managers up worrying at night. But perhaps it should. Experts say that most U.S. organizations have hidden IPv6 ...

Like it or lump it, you're going to need to add IPv6 to your network. Here's how to start. Some people still think they don’t need to worry about the growing shortage of Internet IPv4 addresses and ...

At CES in Las Vegas, a panel of experts on Internet Protocol technology discussed IPv6 and the benefits of having mobile devices use IPv6 instead of IPv4. As it turns out, IPv6 offers some pretty ...

I tried simplifying the problem statement, it appears to be counter productive. So here is the full story. I have a server (A) behind NAT, in a country that blocks a lot of websites and performs DPI.

The brain has a funny way of increasing the relative importance of any particular issue with temporal proximity. In other words, it is well known that we tend to do things at the last minute (no, ...

One of Microsoft's goals in creating Windows Vista was to drive the move toward IPv6. IPv6 is the next-generation Internet protocol that is designed to replace IPv4, which is the standard Internet ...

The day has finally arrived — IPv4 addresses have run out. When the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) started handing out IP addresses, they had about 4.3 billion to disperse. Sounds like a ...