My whole life, I've never worried about ipv6. I know what it is, and why it's important, but for my local networks, it's just been easier to keep using ipv4. My current setup is pretty basic: I have ...

Until recently, IPv6 was perpetually on my "deal with it later" list. I'm sure it's the same story for many home lab enthusiasts. We all know IPv6 exists, and that IPv4 is living on borrowed time, ...

Tanya Candia is an international management expert, specializing for more than 25 years in information security strategy and communication for public- and private-sector organizations. Domains that ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol 1 (DHCP) is a protocol intended to enable machines (servers, game consols, etc) wishing to be “online” the ability to request Internet Protocol information from a ...

So I know there are much better was to do this and far from the best idea but here it goes. I have 2 networks, both using the same private IP block, managed by there own instances of pfsense. They ...

One of the most elemental pieces of network configuration information is the address of a recursive domain name system server, or RDNSS, that can resolve domain names into IP addresses. However, a ...

Like it or lump it, you're going to need to add IPv6 to your network. Here's how to start. Some people still think they don’t need to worry about the growing shortage of Internet IPv4 addresses and ...

IPv4 has been the standard logical addressing protocol for decades. IPv4 is important to internet history as it enabled capabilities like client-server networking, cloud computing, web e-commerce and ...

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) warns that moving from IPv4 to IPv6 is a process fraught with peril, which may explain why government agencies are so far behind their own ...

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