Some time last year, a weird thing happened in the hackerspace where this is being written. The Internet was up, and was blisteringly fast as always, but only a few websites worked. What was up?

The last few blocks of internet addresses using IPv4 are widely expected to be handed out this week. Southampton University's Tim Chown explores what happens next with the switch to IPv6. As I write, ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

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 ...

A total of 33.6 million addresses are on their way to their ultimate users on the Net--meaning the last blocks of IPv4 addresses will be allocated soon. IPv6, hurry up, would ya? Stephen Shankland ...

If you listen to some people, businesses don't need to worry about the growing shortage of Internet IPv4 addresses. Instead, most "network owners find it more affordable to just make do with the ...

Executives from ICANN and beyond watch the last current-generation Internet addresses depart--and warn about consequences of extending the IPv4-based Net. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

One of the biggest boons of the digital era is that you can't run out digital goods. Unless the "good" in question is an Internal Protocol address. North America has officially exhausted its supply of ...

The Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses—not at some point in the future, but <em>right now</em>. But the only solution to the problem, IPv6, is just now ...

StarlingX 11.0 uses IPsec in tunnel mode to encrypt inter-host pod-to-pod communication over the cluster host network. A new ...

If you see Start PXE over IPv4 on MAC error during boot on your HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc. computers, it can happen if a bootable operating system cannot be found. This ...