Neowin News Feed for: Ipv6

China plans to hugely increase IPv6 adoption by 2025

Paul Hill — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 21:00:01 +0000

The Communist Party of China has announced its plans to phase out IPv4 in favour of IPv6 in the country by 2025. It has also set interim goals for 2018 and 2020 to ensure it stays on track. Read more...

Sky "completes" IPv6 rollout on its broadband network

Paul Hill — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 15:46:01 +0000

Sky has almost finished off its upgrade to IPv6. The move should see Sky customers connections become more reliable as there won't be disconnections caused by IPv4 address renewals. Read more...

IPv6 adoption in America passes 3 million

Nathan Tsui — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 05:01:35 +0000

Almost two months after its official launch, IPv6 adoption is growing steadily, according to new research. The US currently leads the field by users, with over 3.3m users adopting the new protocol. Read more...

World IPv6 Day went mostly smoothly, with some glitches

James Woodfin — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 12:24:07 +0000

On June 8th, as previously reported by Neowin and other sites, hundreds of web sites participated in a 24-hour trial of IPv6. The new version allows practically unlimited IP addresses and better performance compared to... Read more...

Today is World IPv6 Day

Tim Schiesser — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:45:22 +0000

Today is World IPv6 Day, the day where some of the major internet companies around the globe switch to IPv6 to test out the new protocol and to see how their network configurations fare. The... Read more...

IPv6 day on 8th June

Stefano Elia — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:24:12 +0000

There was internet panic by some when the last stocks of the traditional IP addresses that all of us are used to were passed down through the system for the last time. Some predicted the... Read more...

APNIC reaches final phase of IPv4 allocations

Dave Legg — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:11:52 +0000

As we covered recently, IPv4 addresses on the internet are running out, and the transition to IPv6 is growing ever more urgent. Today, APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry charged with allocating IP addresses to the... Read more...

Microsoft buys $7.5m worth of IPv4 addresses

Mike Brown — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:23:28 +0000

In an incredible act of desperation, Microsoft announced today its intention to spend $7.5 million on IPv4 addresses from Nortel. The telecom company has begun selling off its assets, including 666,624 IPv4 addresses to Microsoft,... Read more...

Microsoft to enable IPv6 on Bing

Tzvi Friedman — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:29:15 +0000

After the IANA finally distributed the last of the available IPv4 addresses to RIRs, Microsoft is announcing that they will be officially rolling out IPv6 functionality for Bing.com on World IPv6 day on June 8,... Read more...

IPv4 enters exhaustion phase - Update: Gone!

Dave Legg — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:17:52 +0000

Time has just been called on allocations for IPv4 address space, with the last two available ranges being assigned to APNIC, the RIR responsible for allocations in the Asian and Pacific regions. These blocks are 39.x.x.x... Read more...

So, what's all this fuss about IPv4/6 anyway?

Dave Legg — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:38:25 +0000

As every tech news website has been shouting at you for weeks now, IPv4 is coming to the last days of its life, and the world needs to transition to IPv6 to continue to use... Read more...

Is your ISP ready for IPv6?

Dave Legg — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:25:44 +0000

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few months, you'll no doubt be aware that the Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses. Exactly what this means will be covered in a... Read more...

World IPv6 day: Google, Facebook and others testing for 24-hours

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:48:46 +0000

On Wednesday, a number of large websites from around the Internet joined the Internet Society to announce World IPv6 day, a 24-hour test period where all the agreed websites will enable the IPv6 protocol alongside... Read more...

The IPcalypse is only 100 days away

Owen Williams — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:01:01 +0000

We've all known it's been coming for a long time now, there's even a new, alternative IP addressing scheme that's been developed and implemented -- IPv6 -- but adoption has been slow, and now, things... Read more...

IPv4 addresses down to 5% availability

Tom Dwyer — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:17:44 +0000

On Monday, the Number Resource Organization announced that adopting IPv6 addresses was now more important than ever. The news came as it was announced that IPv4 addresses are down to the last 5% of availability. The... Read more...

IANA: IPv4 addresses will dry up in a year

Tzvi Friedman — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:23:42 +0000

According to John Curran, president and CEO of the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN), the Internet will run out of IPv4 addresses to allocate in less than a year. The sentiment was echoed by... Read more...

Organisations failing to migrate to IPv6

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:55:44 +0000

Migration to the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) standard is virtually non-existent, according to a year-long study released this week by network security firm Arbor Networks. Experts and governments have been encouraging organisations to... Read more...

Market Solutions to the IP Address Squeeze

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:10:41 +0000

Perhaps too late, it's widely recognized now that the IPv4 address pool will run out in the next few years. The current prediction, based on current data, is for the IANA to exhaust its pool... Read more...

Apple Shuts Down IPv6 Security Hole

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:56:30 +0000

Apple has slammed the door shut on denial-of-service attacks and a security bypass that Type 0 routing headers in IPv6 let in. The company on June 20 put out an update, Mac OS X 10.4.10,... Read more...

IPv6 to power 'city of the future'

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:44:41 +0000

The city of Harrisonburg, Virginia, will experience a wide variety of new Internet-based services with the rollout of citywide Internet Protocol Version 6. Harrisonburg will become the first U.S. city to have a citywide IPv6... Read more...

Microsoft's Gates Expounds Virtues Of IPSec, IPv6

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:29:20 +0000

Microsoft executives on Tuesday outlined the software giant's vision for providing secure anytime, anywhere access to applications and introduced a new technology partnership to help customers fortify online security. Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Research... Read more...

The state of IPv6 has to be seen to be believed

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:43:33 +0000

THERE WAS AN update on the state of IPv6 at Defcon today, not really picking it apart, more where things are at. There is good and bad, but as always, much of it depends on... Read more...

Nokia Demos Mobile Call Using IPv6

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:35:42 +0000

Nokia has developed a prototype handset that supports Mobile Internet Protocol version 6, a version of the protocol that will help to improve the quality of voice over IP, streaming video, and other applications delivered... Read more...

IPv6 arrives on Root DNS

Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:32:46 +0000

AFTER YEARS of waiting, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has finally got around to adding an IPv6 nameserver address to the Internet's DNS root server system. The move will allow longer IP... Read more...

IPv6 goes live at ICANN

Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:51:04 +0000

ICANN, the U.S. body overseeing Web site allocations globally, has launched a new technology that will allow virtually unlimited Internet addresses, its chairman told Reuters on Tuesday. Vinton Cerf of the Internet... Read more...

IPv6 rollout in 2005 for China and Japan

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:04:53 +0000

China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea are all dedicating time and effort to the research and development of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) technology, according to the Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK), a division... Read more...

Updates to Understanding IPv6

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 21:45:33 +0000

Overview The Microsoft Press book "Understanding IPv6," by Joseph Davies, was published in November 2002. Since then, there have been changes to Internet standards for IPv6 and in Microsoft's support for IPv6 in Windows... Read more...

IPv6 Internet Connection Firewall SDK

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 06:51:26 +0000

This download includes the Microsoft IPv6 Internet Connection Firewall Software Development Kit (SDK). This SDK contains all the software required to programmatically manage the features of the IPv6 Internet Connection Firewall. Major components include: IPv6... Read more...

IPv6 Internet Connection Firewall SDK

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:51:32 +0000

Quick Info File Name: ip6fwsdk.EXE - Download Size: 193 KB - Date Published: 7/22/2003 - Version: 1.0 Overview This download includes the Microsoft IPv6 Internet Connection Firewall Software Development Kit... Read more...

Lockergnome Report - Firewalls not blocking ANY IPv6 traffic

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 20 May 2003 07:38:42 +0000

Thanks Chris for telling me that in his latest GnomeREPORT, he's tring to fiqure out Microsoft's "unique" logic for fixing something thats broken... Then, there are gems like this one [Firewalls not blocking ANY IPv6... Read more...

IPv6 Technology Preview for Windows 2000

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:50:02 +0000

Quick Info File Name: tpipv6-001205.exe - Download Size: 958 KB - Date Published: 3/13/2003 - Version: 1.205 Overview This is a technology preview of IPv6 for Windows 2000. It is... Read more...