Word around the net is that there's a new website technology that allows for a faster, safer web browsing experience, and it's called IPv6. As it turns out, this protocol isn't new at all, but instead ...

IPv6协议于1998年正式设计完成并发布，作为互联网的核心技术支柱之一，其核心目标是取代地址资源严重受限的IPv4协议。 IPv4协议诞生于1980年，采用32位四段式点分十进制地址格式，理论上仅能提供约43亿个可用地址，受地址分配策略等因素影响，实际可用数量仅 ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note that it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. The IPv6 movement has been ...

IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is more efficient, more secure, and more mobile-friendly than IPv4. And in an exploding ecosystem of Internet-capable smart devices which IPv4’s 4.3 billion ...

如果你是个老网民，可能早在 20 年前就听过一个说法："IPv4 地址快用完了，以后都要换成 IPv6。” 一晃眼到了 2026 年，IPv6 协议 standardized（标准化）已经整整 28 年了。根据最新的数据，全球 IPv6 的采用率虽然已经到了 46.82%，中国用户的活跃比例更是高达 77%，但 ...

Many hackers have familiar sayings in their heads, such as “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and KISS (Keep it simple, stupid). Those of us who have been in the field for some time have habits that ...

As the operator of some of the core Internet name servers, including the DNS root, .com and .net, Verisign has a unique view into the challenges of transitioning to IPv6 and progress to date. The ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

I'm looking for more information about having IPv4-only devices (embedded, legacy, etc) on a network that is otherwise IPv6-only, with IPv6-only Internet access. It's academic at this point, but I can ...