IPv6 Act Now

The urgent push to move the whole of Internet addresses off of a system never intended to replace telephone, television, and computing simultaneously, and onto the IPv6 address system, is now entering its 13th consecutive blockbuster year. Despite high-level government recommendations for action plans, a global DNS poisoning scare that many [...]

There are a few culprits that regularly contribute to delayed or failed IPv6 deployment projects, such as poor DNS planning, insufficient testing, unanticipated application behavior, and poor IPv6 support in peripheral support, management, or security systems. Many deployment projects suffer temporary halts when the original IPv6 address design is found to be inadequate – in [...]

As Internet uses, we are accustomed to navigating between websites using their unique address names, known as domain names or URLs (although technically URL actually refers to what follows after the domain name). In fact, however, computers communicate with one another exclusively through another unique address system, a series of numbers called an Internet Protocol [...]

Network engineers from Yahoo are pitching what they admit is a “really ugly hack” to the Internet’s Domain Name System, but they say it is necessary for the popular Web content provider to support IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol. Yahoo outlined its proposal for changes to DNS recursive name resolvers at [...]

Today, I had a great read: a 114-page report from the US Department of Home Security (http://www.it-scc.org/documents/IT_Sector_Risk_Assessment_Report_Final.pdf). This report claims that the Internet infrastructure is well secured and is resilient against attacks. This report is well written and covers notably how the DNS infrastructure is protected (by anycast servers and other mechanisms). More from Network World… Bookmark [...]

Tanzania has become the first beneficiary of the Internet infrastructure project led by AfriNIC, aimed at improving resilience to distributed denial of service attacks by setting up copies of root servers. The Tanzania Internet Exchange (TIX) point has received a copy of the “K” DNS root server operated by RIPE NCC, the regional Internet registry in [...]

The total number of unique domain names on the internet has reached more than 180 million, according to recent figures from VeriSign. Researchers estimate that there are now roughly 183 million domains registered across each of the top-level domains (TLDs). New domain registrations rose at a level of 12 per cent last year. More from VnuNet… Bookmark and [...]

It’s been a few months since my last stats update, and there’s been some progress: New IPv6-reachable DNS: Northern Lights GigaPOP University of Minnessota University of Washington At Penn State, we IPv6-enabled one more of our root servers, bringing our total to 50%. For the top-level domains, we picked up a few more IPv6-reachable domains: Madagascar, Macau, and Somalia. But we [...]

A Domain Name System (DNS) server translates domain names, that you and I can understand, such as www.google.com, into IP (Internet Protocol) addresses that identify computers on a network. There are two versions of these addresses. IPv4 consists of a 32-bit binary number (ie a string of 32 ones or zeroes), but these are usually written [...]

#1: Can you provide a simple overview of IPv6 and the differences between it and IPv4? American Registry for Internet Numbers, or ARIN: Internet Protocol is a set of technical rules that define how computers communicate over a network. There are currently two versions: IP version 4 (IPv4) and IP version 6 (IPv6). IPv4 was the [...]