The team at SURFnet has created an excellent document called “Preparing an IPv6 Address Plan” that walks through the many different steps and concerns that you need to consider when creating a plan. The September 2013 version of the document is available from SURFnet’s website. After briefly touching on the basics of IPv6 addressing and Read more…
Sep 25
How To Get IPv6 Addresses
If you want to obtain IPv6 addresses for your network the process to do so depends upon the type of network you operate. If you are a home user or operator of a business network, you will want to start with the local Internet Service Provider (ISP) who provides your access to the Internet. If Read more…
Sep 25
IPv6 Address Planning
When starting out with IPv6, it is helpful to plan out how you are going to allocate your IPv6 addresses across your various networks and subnets. Reasons for creating an IPv6 address plan include: Routing tables can be smaller and more efficient Security policies can be easier to implement Application policies can be implemented Network Read more…
Sep 24
2% of All Traffic to Google Now Over IPv6! (Doubling in Past Year) (Featured Blog)
This weekend brought the great news that Google’s IPv6 statistics have shown that connections over IPv6 to Google’s web sites hit the 2% threshold for the first time. (You can see for yourself.) While 2% sounds tiny, as I wrote in a Deploy360 post toda…
Sep 24
Second Free IPv6 Webinar Tomorrow (Weds) – IPv6 Transition Technologies
If you missed today’s IPv6 webinar sponsored by AFRINIC, y0u still have a chance to join in tomorrow when the focus will be primarily on “IPv6 transition technologies” and how you can connect your network to IPv6. More information and the registration link can be found here: http://www.afrinic.net/en/library/news/946-ipv6-webinar Tomorrow session starts again at 13:00 UTC (15:00 Read more…
Sep 24
IPv6 Address Planning: Guidelines for IPv6 address allocation
1 Introduction IP address planning is certainly among the critical functions required within the overall process of planning and executing an IPv6 deployment project. After all, one needs IPv6 address space in order to implement IPv6 and current IPv4 space must be managed in conjunction with the addition of IPv6 space. But the overall IPv6 Read more…
Sep 24
NIST Releases New Version of Secure DNS Deployment Guide (SP-800-81-2, Including DNSSEC)
Looking for a solid document about how to securely deploy DNS, including how to configure DNSSEC? We’ve written before about NIST’s excellent Secure DNS Deployment Guide and how it is very applicable to enterprises and organizations of all types, not just those of the US government. This morning NIST’s Scott Rose announced that a new Read more…
Sep 24
Google Now Seeing 2% IPv6 Traffic – The Internet Is Changing!
Woohoo! The awesome news this morning was that over the weekend Google’s IPv6 measurements showed that 2% of all traffic was hitting Google’s networks over IPv6! “So what?”, I’m sure some of you are saying… yes, I admit, 2% is a tiny amount of traffic, but consider what Phil Roberts wrote in an Internet Technology Read more…
Sep 23
Free “Learning IPv6″ Webinars TOMORROW (on Sept 24/25) Sponsored by AFRINIC and ISOC – Sign Up Now!
Want to learn about IPv6? Would you like to know more about how IPv6 works, the basics of IPv6 addressing as well as what transition mechanisms are available to help move from IPv4 to IPv6? If so, you can take part in a set of two free webinars happening tomorrow, Tuesday, September 24, 2013, and Read more…
Sep 23
FIR #722 – 9/23/13 – For Immediate Release
Congratulations to Jeramiah Owyang and Maggie Fox; FIR on Strategy starts debuts this week; Neville at smwSMILE on Monday; Quick News: Ghost blogging platform released to early backers, Target places bet on earned media, how top PR firms used LinkedIn,…
