In some applications, major IPv6 addresses are confined to the core of large IP networks, and customers and users still see only IPv4 addresses. Nevertheless, there is nothing to fear about learning ...

However, before shifting to IPv6 completely, it’s important to look at the main differences between IPv4 and IPv6.

Being dual stacked does not necessarily address the need for services to support IPv6. Imagine an IPv4 endpoint requesting the IP address for a site. DNS must respond, but with what?

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 ...

It is clear that IPv4 is going to be with us for decades to come and there are strategies to prolong the lifespan of IPv4.

This results from the use of a 128-bit address, whereas IPv4 uses only 32 bits. In 2010, NRO expects the five RIRs to allocate over 2,000 IPv6 address blocks, representing an increase of over 70% ...