April 7, 2015
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You’d think by now with the last IPv4 Internet addresses disappearing, we’d all be well on our way to using IPv6 addresses. You’d be wrong. So, it is that there’s now a growing market for IPv4 addresses. How much is … Continue reading
November 7, 2012
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Skype, despite built-in advertising and no privacy guarantees is still a very popular Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and instant messaging (IM) client. Indeed, Microsoft is replacing Windows Live Messaging with Skype. Skype has another problem that’s becoming increasingly troublesome: It … Continue reading
October 1, 2012
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Two years ago, then U.S. federal CIO Vivek Kundra ordered all federal agencies to upgrade their public-facing Web services to native IPv6 by September 30, 2012. So, how did they do? Well, to cut to the chase: Not very well. … Continue reading
September 28, 2012
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Way, way back in pre-history, back when dinosaurs walked the Earth and we were mere gleams in the eyes of furry critters whose usual fate was to go crunch, harvester ants had worked out how many foragers to send out … Continue reading
September 17, 2012
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If you’re Joe User, you don’t have to worry about IPv6 yet. But, if you own a business in Europe, the Middle East or some of Central Asia, start worrying. RIPE NCC, the RIR (Regional Internet Registry) for this part … Continue reading
August 10, 2012
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We all know we’re running out of IPv4, the old-style Internet Protocol (IP), addresses). If you’re in the network business, you know you need to start switching over to IPv6 soon. What you may not know though is that you … Continue reading