The last few blocks of internet addresses using IPv4 are widely expected to be handed out this week. Southampton University's Tim Chown explores what happens next with the switch to IPv6. As I write, ...
IPv4 has supposedly been on its way out for decades now, with IPv6 poised to take over the world. But here in 2024, we're all still using IPv4, and IPv4 exhaustion is just as pressing a problem as ...
In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...