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 ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

The last few blocks of internet addresses using IPv4 are widely expected to be handed out this week. Southampton University's Tim Chown explores what happens next with the switch to IPv6. As I write, ...

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' ...

The slow move to IPv6 has crept past another milestone, with the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) stating on Monday that the pool of unassigned IPv4 addresses have been allocated. "As a result, we ...

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When it became clear that 32-bit IP addresses just wouldn’t cut it for a growing Internet, the Internet Engineering Task Force did what its name suggests and created a new version of IP. IPv6 has so ...

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 ...

How to support transitional routing of IPv6 through IPv4 Configuring 6to4 and Teredo Configuring IP-HTTPS and Microsoft DirectAccess Understanding Tunnel Brokers This is the fifth technical blog post ...