Network administrators have long known that we’re running out of IPv4 addresses. But, IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, adoption has remained slow. Until now, now many of the major ISPs, network vendors, and Web sites have publicly committed to supporting IPv6 later this year. In a promising sign of things getting better for IPv6, [...]
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All IPv6 Internet, All the time
January 17th, 2012 · Comments Off
Tags: Business · Internet · Network · Network Services · TCP/IP
Microsoft’s online services briefly go dark
September 9th, 2011 · Comments Off
This has not been a good month for the Internet’s core address system: the Domain Name System (DNS). First, there was a man-in-the-middle attack on numerous Web site users caused by a Turkish cracker. Now, according to Microsoft, many of its online services were disabled by a DNS failure. At first, some people thought this [...]
Tags: Applications · Business · Cloud Computing · Infrastructure · Internet · Microsoft · Network · Network Services · Office Software · TCP/IP
DNS hack attack mutilates multiple Web sites
September 5th, 2011 · Comments Off
When I first heard that The Register, a popular United Kingdom, technology news site had been hacked, I was doubtful that the site itself had actually been cracked. The first headline I saw read, The Register Hacked. That isn’t what I saw. To me, it looked like a typical Domain Name System (DNS) hijack attack. [...]
Tags: Internet · Network · Network Services · Security · TCP/IP · Web Services
Google and OpenDNS join forces to speed up DNS
August 30th, 2011 · Comments Off
What do you think the number one source of traffic is on the Internet today? E-Mail? Not even close. Conventional Web sites? Not way! Porn!? No, believe it or not, it’s not that either. The single biggest source of traffic on today’s Internet is Netflix. Its videos, and those of other video sites, require their [...]
Tags: Business · Entertainment · Google · Internet · Media Extender · Network · Network Services · TCP/IP · Video
Hurricane Electric takes its IPv6 expertise to the datacenter
August 23rd, 2011 · Comments Off
Hurricane Electric, arguably the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone and co-location provider, has expanded its IPv6 Professional Services offerings so that they can now help you with IPv6 datacenter deployments. If you’re a home user or just have a small office/home office (SOHO), you don’t need to worry about the fact that we’re running out [...]
Tags: Infrastructure · Internet · Network · Server · TCP/IP