If you’ve ever been configuring a router or other network device and noticed that you can set up IPv4 and IPv6, you might have wondered what happened to IPv5. Well, thanks to [Navek], you don ...

A joke in networking circles is that the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is always a few years away. Although IPv6 was introduced in the early 90s as a result of the feared imminent IPv4 address drought ...

IPv4 has supposedly been on its way out for decades now, with IPv6 poised to take over the world. But here in 2024, we're all still using IPv4, and IPv4 exhaustion is just as pressing a problem as ...

The Asia-Pacific region has reached an internet milestone: 50% of its networks are now IPv6-capable, according to the ...

India and China deliver a nice milestone, with help from ancient internet history Asia has become the second region in the ...

Till recently, we used the IPv4 version, which provided us with a 32-bit address. But these available addresses will be exhausted soon. The newer version of IP, is the IPv6, on the other hand ...

IPv6 is starting to show up in around the Internet. Adoption is slow, but with the magic number of 4 billion- plus IPv4 addresses about to be reached, IPv6 will see a much faster pace of adoption as ...

A technique that hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups are using to hide their operations poses a ...

Internet service provider PlusNet, which is part of the wider BT Group, has informed customers that they're "now ready" to ...

For the foreseeable future, IPv4 will co-exist with the newer IPv6 version (see IPv6). IPv4 uses a "dotted decimal" address that comprises four sets of numbers separated by decimal points ...

The main reason for adopting IPv6 is to address the shortage of IPv4 addresses, a challenge that has existed since the early days of the Internet. Derek Fernandez, a legal expert in communications ...