Just before year's end, ICANN/IANA sent out a short message saying that "on 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses of the four root servers whose operators have requested ...

IPv6 offers several ways that aren’t possible in IPv4 to assign IP addresses, and DNS set-up has differences as well. As IP technology has matured, the range of devices that the internet protocol ...

IPv6 took another significant step forward yesterday, as the root DNS zone was updated with IPv6 addresses for six of the 13 root servers. Most root servers are "anycasted:" physical machines are ...

IPv6 was first proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in the late 1990s, but it wasn’t until July 2017 that it became ratified. Instead, IPv4, a protocol first introduced way back in ...

As the operator of some of the core Internet , including the DNS root, .com and .net, Verisign has a unique view into the challenges of transitioning to and progress to date. The purpose of a name in ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Many privacy-concerned users understand why changing their IP address and DNS servers on Windows 11/10 operating systems is critical. It’s problematic when that’s not possible. If you encounter this ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the foundations of the internet, working in the background to match the names of web sites that people type into a search box with the corresponding IP address, ...