A Life Without NAT

Network Address Translation – A Black Mark on IPv4’s Name Why do people use Network Address Translation? Because they always have, that’s why. “That’s the way we’ve always done it” is one of the dumbest reasons we do things. It precludes continued thought and absolves us the responsibility to think about why we are doing…

In the World I See…

I wrote this post several years ago.  By writing it I was trying to get people to begin to think about how the size of the IPv6 address space, when combined with RFID technologies, was going to change everything about how they manage their lives.  I wrote this way before NetFlix began streaming content, before…

On the Practical Feasibility of Ping Sweeping IPv6 Networks

The IPv6 address space is huge.  On paper each IPv6 subnet (/64) supports more than 18.4 quintillion hosts (millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions and then quintillions).  It’s an amazingly large number.  By every conceivable measure today we can’t contemplate a situation where anything but the tiniest portion of that address space will actually be utilized.  Assuming…

What You dig and How You dig It

The Domain Internet Groper, or dig, as most of us know it, is considered by pretty much everybody in the ‘nix community to be the replacement to nslookup. And I have long been madly in like with it. Not sure why, though. nslookup has never been a disappointment. Maybe it’s because dig is newer and…