Geoff Huston questions the goal of completely replacing IPv4 with IPv6. Thanks to CDNs and mobile traffic, address scarcity is no longer a major problem. If you talk to networkers about IPv6, there is ...

Check out Denise Donohue’s blog. More Cisco Press book chapters from new and classic Cisco Press books. Of these, many capabilities have been backported to IPv4. The primary adoption of IPv6 will be ...

Being connected to the internet has become more of a necessity nowadays, but few of us stop to realize how the whole process takes place. We connect to the web through a communication protocol that ...

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the most widely used communications protocol. Because it is the most pervasive communication technology, it is the focus of hundreds of thousands of IT professionals like ...

During 2011, the long-anticipated and long-dreaded IPv4 address exhaustion finally came about. Of course, operators and service providers have been preparing for years, and are largely educated about ...

In a very theoretical world, an application programmer could rely on a DNS lookup to return the best (and only) address of a remote host, and could then pass that address directly to the network ...