We spotted this interesting IPv6 article this morning written by Angus Kidman at Lifehacker and wanted to share it with you. Here’s an excerpt: “We’ve known for decades that the available pool of IPv4 address was eventually going to dry up, but despite numerous warnings usage of its successor IPv6 is still minimal. Why haven’t…
Most DNS servers these days are glad to resolve IPv6 addresses from clients who send the queries packaged in IPv4 packets. In the grand scheme of things the DNS servers don’t care how you sent the question, they just care about the question. And because almost everybody still relies heavily upon IPv4, most of us…
One very cool and highly promoted feature of IPv6 is stateless address autoconfiguration. If you don’t already know, this feature enables a node to automatically derive its IPv6 address(es) without the help of of a DHCP server. That is a big departure from the world of IPv4. In IPv4 you either had to manually configure…