Fix for some network dropouts -- turn off IPv6 Some users have reported that a previously noted fix -- turning off IPv6 -- results in an elimination of network dropouts occurring after the update to ...

An estimated one million Internet users are expected to have trouble connecting to some of their favorite Websites during World IPv6 Day on Wednesday. More than 400 popular Websites including Facebook ...

Well sure, if you think the Internet Engineering Task Force is worthy of respect merely for having engineered the Internet by establishing the standards for every important protocol used on the ...

It's been a quarter of a century since the first IPv6 standard was finalized as RFC 2460, and to say adoption has been slow is an understatement. The pool of available IPv4 addresses has been ...

I was thinking about the problem of using legacy IPv4-only apps with IPv6, and I got to thinking about how programs like stunnel and ssh can do a trick where they can either open a local port that ...

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) engineers, reacting with unusual speed, have moved to address a serious security lapse in IPv6 before it becomes too widespread. The bug, involving Type 0 ...

What just happened? The number of countries where more than half of internet connections use the IPv6 protocol has surged from 13 to 21 over the past year. This rapid progress, tracked by measurements ...

The Internet promises unlimited connectivity, but such connectivity requires that computers and devices find one another through a common address plan. The current plan, in place since the late 1970s, ...