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Currently, IPv4 is the Internet protocol used by most of the world, but the situation won't last much longer, according to the Internet Society.
Internet Protocol Version 6 is the next incarnation of the technology used to link computers, and, by extension, people, from all around the world.
Currently, IPv4 i... |
18 January 2012
09:39 GMT |
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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 |
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Qbittorrent, a multi-platform Bittorrent client developed in C++/Qt4 by Christophe Dumez that is designed to run on all major platforms available, is now at version 2.9.3. Qbittorrent 2.9.3 comes with some important changes and updates that were really necessary. The advent of the IPv6 protocol will spark a flu... |
29 December 2011
09:25 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The World IPv6 Day came and went without too much excitement, which is actually a good thing. It seems that the experiment went smoothly for most companies involved. IPv6 traffic surged, as expected, but still made up a very small portion of all internet traffic on June 8th, during the hours the event took place.Face... |
9 June 2011
11:33 GMT |
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The World IPv6 Day is upon us, for 24 hours, companies around the world will be offering native IPv6 connectivity for their sites and services to test the readiness of the internet to make the switch to the newer protocol. If successful, you shouldn't notice anything special about today, but if you're havin... |
8 June 2011
10:51 GMT |
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Microsoft is one of the companies participating in World IPv6 Day, an initiative designed to test readiness for the transition to next generation Internet Protocol (IPv6) from the now all but obsolete IPv4. Since World IPv6 Day is scheduled to last all day today, June 8th, 2011, the Redmond company has enabled IPv6 ... |
8 June 2011
06:23 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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The web is preparing for the necessary migration to the IPv6 protocol, which greatly expands the number of network addresses available to computers and devices connected to the internet. Progress has been slow, but a number of companies and organizations are working on pushing for faster adoption. Now, OpenDNS is off... |
2 May 2011
05:41 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Microsoft is providing guidance to help customers Demonstrate IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) using machines running Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. And fact is that with the rapid depletion of IPv4 public addresses, now is an excellent opportunity to at least start exploring IPv6, if not already beginning ... |
1 February 2011
07:36 GMT |
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The dwindling number of IPv4 addresses and the very slow adoption of the newer IPv6 has been a problem for years, but things are only now starting to move in the right direction, even as addresses are expected to run out sometime this year. Google, Facebook and Yahoo, which now account for a big percentage of interne... |
13 January 2011
08:18 GMT |
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The fact that IPv4 addresses are running out is not exactly surprising for anyone interested in the technical aspects of the web. But the problem has lingered even as the available addresses became fewer and few ISPs or websites have started taking the necessary steps to avoid the problem.Now, three of the world'... |
12 January 2011
14:06 GMT |
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YouTube quietly rolled out IPv6 support last week and has been deploying it across the site throughout this week. The video site has now made it official by announcing that YouTube is currently streaming videos over IPv6 through the networks that support the protocol. It marks a significant point in IPv6 adoption as... |
6 February 2010
05:51 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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The underlying technology powering the Internet is going through a major overhaul as IPv6 is slowly replacing the aging IPv4, the most widely used networking protocol. The adoption rate has been slow but more and more companies are implementing the new protocol. Google is already one of the biggest adopters and is no... |
21 November 2009
07:18 GMT |
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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 |
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One of the most popular, C-written BitTorrent clients for Mac OS X, Transmission has reached its third Beta in version 1.50. The free application aims to be as efficient as possible. Details on the new release, as well as a download link are available just below.Transmission is a BitTorrent client much like Vuze, or ... |
23 January 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Transmission, one of the favorites in BitTorrent clients for Mac, has reached version 1.50 Beta, adding support for Internet Protocol version 6, (IPv6). The latest stable version of the software (Transmission 1.42) is also available for free download. According to the changelog, Transmission 1.50 Beta 1 adds IPv6 su... |
12 January 2009
04:51 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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You get a batch of semiconductors, put in some silicon to make the mixture homogeneous, bake it for 25 minutes at 250 degrees Celsius, then take the result, spread it evenly in a straight line over a couple of kilometers, and look really silly while doing it. Or you can just call up the researchers from the Universi... |
25 April 2007
10:38 GMT |
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Most of you know that DHCP is an extension of BootP (Bootstrap Protocol - an UDP network protocol used by the network client to automatically obtain the IP address). BootP is practically an automated process of booting the machines in a LAN. All the network parameters are put in a server and when the machine in the L... |
17 March 2007
08:22 GMT |
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Symantec has updated its analysis of the network attack surface in Windows Vista. After having evaluated the network-facing components of the beta version of the operating system, at the end of Vista's first month of commercial availability Symantec has made available an updated study. The release of Vista has m... |
7 March 2007
10:07 GMT |
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The weakest link in Windows Vista is the network protocol stack. This because, with Vista, Microsoft has rewritten the network protocol stack from the grounds up. Symantec's conclusions on the security advancements brought to the table by Windows Vista single out the network protocol stack. The bottom line is th... |
6 March 2007
10:54 GMT |
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