One of the most elemental pieces of network configuration information is the address of a recursive domain name system server, or RDNSS, that can resolve domain names into IP addresses. However, a ...

IPv6 is the next-generation protocol designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to replace IPv4, the current version of the Internet Protocol. IPv4 has been remarkably resilient. However, ...

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 ...

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 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 of February 4, six of the 13 DNS root servers can be queried over IPv6, putting IPv6 on equal footing with IPv4 on the first time. a.root-servers.net has IPv6 address 2001:503:ba3e::2:30 ...

Many an IT administrator has needed to modify network interface settings in the past, usually via the graphical user interface (GUI). Besides just setting the IP address, if a system is statically ...