A good example of an SLA would be an educational institution or small ISP that doesn’t delegate. The first three levels of aggregation take up the first half (64 bits) of the IPv6 address.

Working with ARIN to request IPv6 differs from IPv4 procedures Whenever I help a company deploy IPv6, the first question I’m asked is how to get provider independent IPv6 address space from ARIN.

Current IP addresses use the IPv4 format, which assigns users an IP address using four numbers, each from 1 to 256. (8.8.8.8 is an available DNS server IP address administered by Google, for ...

"For example, Android apps on Chrome OS have end-to-end IPv6 connectivity without NAT, thanks to a dedicated IPv6 address, which is something that isn't possible using IPv4." ...

Today is World IPv6 Day. Don't worry, you don't need to send a card -- it's just a 24-hour test by Google, Facebook and many other websites of a new way of connecting to the Web.

Suppose that an Internet host is dual stacked with an IPV4 and an IPV6 address. Can an A record and a quad A or an A6 record point to the same name? For example: blue.example.com. IN A 10.4.4.4 ...

IPv4 is running out of steam and companies are finally starting to switch to IPv6. So what is the difference between the two and why should you be using IPv6.

Something is happening in IPv6, the next generation Internet Protocol that’s been waiting in the wings for the best part of a decade. Google has been allocated an address range, marking the ...

In classless addressing, the IPv4 network mask or prefix determines the boundary between the network and host portion of the IP address instead of the initial IP address bits. On a host, it is still ...

IPv4 addresses will get very expensive at that point and then, maybe, we'll get off the dime and move to IPv6 in earnest. Until then, enjoy the dancing turtle.