by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 4, 2011 | Server Administration
Well, its finally happening, the world is starting to run out of IPv4 addresses. ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers) and IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) announced in February that the last of the world’s remaining IPv4 blocks had...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Sep 25, 2010 | Server Administration, Server Management
Ok, now that we know what IPv6 IP address are all about in part I and II, lets take a look at what it would be like using them for sites hosted on your server. Once you’ve ensured that your OS and your DC are setup to support IPv6, the next step would be to...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Sep 18, 2010 | Server Administration, Server Management
I know I said I’d talk about IPv6 DNS records in this post, but I realized that we’d have to cover a few basics first. So lets cover those first before moving on… IPv6 in your OS Latest releases of all major OSes currently support IPv6 out of the...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Sep 9, 2010 | Server Administration, Server Management
Well, if your already setup, then you wont have to worry too much. At the current rate, the general opinion is that new hosts will have to be assigned IPv6 addresses by 2012(if the world doesn’t end). So if those hosts wish to communicate with the other IPv4...
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