Practical Technology

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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OpenDNS, a popular third-party Domain Name System (DNS) provider, is now offering IPv6 DNS support. The company claims that “OpenDNS is the first major recursive DNS service in the world to offer the service.” I’m not sure that they’re the first, but I do know this is a big step forward for network administrators. I [...]

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As you may know, a lot of SOHO/consumer network gear doesn’t support IPv6 yet. At the same time, some vendors claims that their Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) works with IPv6, but it’s compatibility is, shall we say, a little questionable. Now, the RIPE Network Coordination Centre, the technical arm of RIPE, the Internet’s Regional Internet [...]

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First things first. If you work in a small office/home office (SOHO) or are just interested in IPv6 at home, you don’t need to start switching over yet. Big businesses and large organizations are the ones that really need to get on the stick with IPv6. That said, I know many of you don’t want [...]

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