For the most part, the dire warnings about running out of internet addresses have ceased, because, slowly but surely, migration from the world of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6 has begun, ...

Nick Hardiman explains the seemingly arcane engineering of the IPv6 address. Find out what makes it tick. Let’s take a long hard look at an IPv6 address. Amazon supply IPv6 addresses with their EC2 ...

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 ...

I’ve written about IPv6 address design previously, and in that post I briefly touched on the fact that our long-ingrained habits of IPv4 address design can lead us astray when working with IPv6. I’d ...

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: ...

With the demise of Apple’s own networking protocol AppleTalk, Apple’s products are suffering from the same issue as anyone else’s: the Internet is running out of addresses. Google, Facebook, Yahoo, ...

Word around the net is that there's a new website technology that allows for a faster, safer web browsing experience, and it's called IPv6. As it turns out, this protocol isn't new at all, but instead ...

On April 14, 2026, a draft of IPv8 (Internet Protocol Version 8), the next-generation network protocol, was submitted to the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), the standardization body for ...