September 7, 2012
Deprecate, Deprecate, Deprecate
Those actively involved in the journey to IPv6 as the native transport encounter plenty of new terms and technology. One unexpected term stands out for Colin.
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September 6, 2012
Know Thy IPv6 Neighbor
In this post Colin reviews the items kept in the IPv6 neighbor cache and how to view the cache on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX systems.
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September 5, 2012
Resolver Cache - Linux vs Windows
In this post Colin explores some of the differences in DNS behavior between Windows and Linux systems.
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July 16, 2012
Chief Information Officers Council – Roadmap Toward IPv6 Adoption for the Federal Government
Just last week (July 12, 2012), the Chief Information Officers Council released this updated version of the Roadmap Toward IPv6 Adoption for the Federal …
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December 30, 2011
Security Through Obscurity
The effectiveness of Security through Obscurity is closely related to the knowledge (or lack thereof) of the attacker. If someone is unaware of how a particular …
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December 23, 2011
What DoD Directive 8570.01 is All About and What It Means to You
Directive 8570.01 is an initiative that sets out to provide guidance and procedures for training, certification, and management of the Department of Defense …
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June 24, 2011
/64 or /126 Silliness
A comment on the silliness of using /126 IPv6 prefixes for for P2P links.
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June 2, 2011
A Life Without Network Address Translation (NAT)
IPv6 means a world without NAT. In this post Colin attempts to help long-term IPv4 NAT users understand why everything is going to be just fine.
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May 29, 2011
Pv6 Means Never Again Having to Wonder
In this post Colin discusses how to give every node in your enterprise the exact same default router IPv6 address and have it all still work.
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May 20, 2011
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 …
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May 20, 2011
The Debate Surrounding Section 6.5.4.1
The IANA (Internet Assigned Number Authority) distributes IPv6 address to RIR's (Regional Internet Registry's) around the world. At the moment there are five …
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