Softpedia
 

NEWS CATEGORIES:



NEWS ARCHIVE >>
SOFTPEDIA REVIEWS >>
MEET THE EDITORS >>
Home > News > Tags > IPv4

Stories about: IPv4


Google Will Permanently Switch on IPv6 Connectivity on June 6, 2012

IPv6 is finally here to stay. Well, it's almost finally here to stay, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to permanently switch on IPv6 connections for their sites on June 6th. At that point, users will be able to connect either via IPv4 or via IPv6, depending on the type of connection their ISPs p...

18 January 2012
06:10 GMT

IPv4 Addresses Now Go for $12, €8.9 a Piece, as Borders Sells 65,536 of Them

Companies looking to buy some chunk of IP addresses were in luck as the now defunct US bookseller Borders offered a stack of 65,536 IP addresses, a full /16 block of IPv4 addresses, for auction. Cerner, a healthcare software consulting company, bought the whole lot for $12, €8.93 a pop, for a total of $786,432,...

6 December 2011
09:15 GMT

80 Percent of IPv6 Addresses Come from Go Daddy

IPv6 adoption is slow, there's no debate about that. Still, things are moving forward and there are at least a few companies actually pushing adoption. The biggest impact are the companies that affect a lot of users, like ISPs, in the case of Comcast for example, or registrars like Go Daddy. Go Daddy is the wor...

21 November 2011
08:20 GMT

Comcast Begins Wide Scale Trials of IPv6 Native Dual Stack Connections

There aren't a lot of people in the business that don't know this, IPv4 addresses have nearly run out and IPv6 needs to be adopted as soon as possible. Yet no one is doing something very concrete about it.Some sites have deployed support, some small scale ISPs are testing or even supporting the technology i...

11 November 2011
11:01 GMT

Reputation Systems Become Inefficient in Front of Cybercriminals

Reputation systems are often used to detect and catalog locations that might present a threat to internauts, but now, hackers devise advanced techniques that allow them to evade or to go around the security measures that rely on such structures. Present in Barcelona at the Virus Bulletin conference, Threat Post repr...

7 October 2011
08:35 GMT

Motorola Mobility and Telenet Complete Successful IPv6 Test

It appears that there is life before the Google's acquisition, as Motorola Mobility has just announced that it has successfully tested IPv6 with Telenet. For the non-tech savvy, the IPv6 stands for Internet Protocol version 6 and is designed to succeed the older Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). These ar...

22 August 2011
15:01 GMT

World IPv6 Day to Test the Internet's Readiness to Switch from the Ancient IPv4

The World IPv6 Day is almost here, on June 8th, a number of big and small internet companies will be testing IPv6 connectivity for their websites and services for a full day. All of the companies involved will be enabling parallel IPv6 and, the older but prevalent, IPv4 connections. In most cases, for properly config...

6 June 2011
08:10 GMT

Windows 7 Is Ready for World IPv6 Day

With approximately 4 billion Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses depleted, the world is gearing up for the transition to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). In contrast to IPv4, IPv6 offers a staggering volume of addresses, in excess of one billion per person – they’re bound to last quite so...

21 May 2011
11:01 GMT

As IPv4 Addresses Run Out, More Are Joining the World IPv6 Day Initiative

The internet is facing a problem on the scale it hasn't met before. IPv4 addresses, the unique identifiers attached to any computer, phone or device connected to the internet, are becoming insufficient for the number of people and 'things' wanting to get online. The solution is IPv6, a new protocol whi...

4 February 2011
12:11 GMT

The Final Five IPv4 Address Blocks Have Been Assigned to Regional Registries

As expected, the major groups handling the inner-workings of the internet have announced that the final unassigned IPv4 address blocks have been handed over to the five regional internet registries (RIR). This marks the official, albeit symbolic, end of IPv4 and the groups focused more on the future, IPv6, rather tha...

3 February 2011
13:20 GMT

Bing Jumps on the “World IPv6 Day” Bandwagon on June 8, 2011

Microsoft is joining companies such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Akamai and Limelight Networks for a test drive of Internet Protocol version 6 in mid-2011, the company announced. Specifically, the software giant plans to enable worldwide IPv6 connectivity to Bing.com on June 8, just as additional companies that are p...

3 February 2011
07:49 GMT

IPv4 Addresses to Run Out Within Days

There's been plenty of talk so far, but 'end is nigh,' it seems, for the last IPv4 addresses. A number of organizations who handle domain and address distribution and the general workings of the internet will get together for a joint announcement later today. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names...

3 February 2011
01:51 GMT

Windows 7 Certified IPv6 Ready as IPv4 Address Space Drops Below 5%

Windows 7 has received a new certification deeming it ready for Internet Protocol version 6, and the announcement could not come at a better time. Just as the IPv6 Consortium wrapped up Phase-2 testing for the last Windows client and Server platforms from Microsoft, independently of the group, the Number Resource Or...

20 October 2010
08:04 GMT

IPv4 Space Running Out, Under 10 Percent Left

Due to a recent surge in IPv4 allocations in Asia, in major part owed to China's Internet boom, ICANN has recently announced that the total number of available IPv4 addresses has fallen below the 10% mark and is now approximated around the 400 million mark.Not to cause any panic in IT circles, Rod Beckstrom, ICA...

2 February 2010
08:06 GMT

YouTube Rolls Out IPv6 Support Sending Traffic Through the Roof

IPv4 addresses are running out and, while it's not exactly an emergency yet, most companies and providers have been slow in deploying support for the 'next-generation' version of the Internet protocol, IPv6. Things got a major boost recently, though, as YouTube seems to have quietly introduced IPv6 su...

2 February 2010
05:09 GMT

Most Companies Aren't Ready to Switch to IPv6

The web is booming, more and more people are online and more websites are popping up than ever. In fact, the number of websites and computers connected to the Internet is becoming so great, that we're running out of IP addresses to assign them. This shortage can be avoided by switching from the old and widely us...

3 November 2009
09:52 GMT

Microsoft Offers TCP/IP Fundamentals for Windows

TCP/IP, an acronym for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, is a suite of protocols supported by Microsoft with the Windows family of platforms. Essentially, through its components, TCP/IP is used for communications on both private networks and on the Internet. As far as the world wide web is concerned, t...

2 June 2008
05:49 GMT

IP Addresses Running Low

Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the net, who played a key role in the development of the protocols (like the IPv4 that is currently the most used IP version in the world) which underpin the global internet has recently said: "There is a risk of not being able to get online." He added: "The rate of consumpt...

31 October 2007
17:50 GMT

Resolve TCP/IP Network Configuration Issues in Windows Vista

Microsoft has set up the networking infrastructure in Windows Vista in such a manner that it requires only minimal user interaction, especially when the operating system has to interact with a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server. DHCP is designed to take the user out of the equation of assigning an Inte...

5 October 2007
06:45 GMT

Vista Is the Right Answer for IPv4 Address Pool Exhaustion

Windows Vista will be situated at the heart of the next generation of IP addresses. Microsoft's latest operating system will provide the main infrastructure for the adoption of IPv6. The most recent predictions point out that by 2010, the current IPv4 addresses are expected to completely run out. The Internet As...

28 May 2007
09:18 GMT


WindowsGamesDriversMacLinuxScriptsMobileHandheldNews

SUBMIT PROGRAM   |   ADVERTISE   |   GET HELP   |   SEND US FEEDBACK   |   RSS FEEDS   |   UPDATE YOUR SOFTWARE   |   ROMANIAN FORUM