The first few bits of an IPv6 address do reveal something about the IPv6 address, although IPv6 addressing is in no way classful. IPv6 addresses have an address type , and the type is determined by ...

E nabling IPv6 on your home network might sound like an interesting idea, but in reality, you probably don’t need it. With the right configuration, your current IPv4 setup is ...

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 ...

Running out of addresses shouldn’t be a problem for IPv6 for some time, as its 128-bit address format enables assigning somewhere in the neighborhood of 6.67 *10 23 addresses for each square ...

With interest in IPv6 accelerating and adoption heating up more attention is being paid to address planning, but where do you start?

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.

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.

Some time last year, a weird thing happened in the hackerspace where this is being written. The Internet was up, and was blisteringly fast as always, but only a few websites worked. What was up?

Learn how to use tools like nslookup, dig, and browser add-ons to diagnose IPv6 connectivity issues and ensure optimal browsing in a dual-protocol environment.

So on a whim I downloaded realvnc and popped in an ipv6 address and boom, it connected (albeit very slowly)! Is the osx vnc broken, maybe?