Practical Technology

I’m not the least bit surprised that more people and companies haven’t moved to IPv6. Yes, they know that we’re running out of IPv4 Internet addresses. Indeed, some may know that Asia’s already run out of IPv4 addresses. But does that mean that they’re switching over to the IPv6 Internet? According to Akamai’s State of [...]

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The clock has stuck midnight. While your carriage may not have turned into a pumpkin, we really are out of IPv4 addresses on the Internet. Oh sure, in North America, a few addresses left haven’t been spoken for yet, but they’ll be gone by the end of 2011. And you can buy IPv4 addresses for [...]

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Internet administrators were 99.9999% sure that World IPv6 Day would go by without any real problems. Of course, when you’re dealing with something as big as the Internet, even six nines of up-time could mean hundreds of thousands of users with trouble. So far, though, all is well. At noon Eastern time, all the dual-stacked [...]

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While you’ve been asleep in your beds with visions of iPad 2s dancing in your heads, network administrators have been wide awake getting ready for World IPv6 Day. And, what’s that? As the The Internet Society explained, “The goal of the Test Drive Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers [...]

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As June 8, 2011, World IPv6 Day approaches, I’m not surprised to see major ISP and networking vendors getting ready to test out their IPv6 Internet connections. What I didn’t expect was to see Blizzard Entertainment, the publishers of the wildly popular Massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft (WoW), is now supporting [...]

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