Very early this morning, I submitted a range of updates to the book to O’Reilly’s production team. As this is the first formal update I’ve made, I’m not sure of the exact process from here, but at some point soon the updated …
May 03
Updates Submitted For “Migrating Applications To IPv6” Book
May 02
Cisco Blog: 5 Steps For Building Your IPv6 Address Plan
Today over on Cisco’s “Borderless Networks” blog, Jim Bailey had a great post up tackling the issue around how you create a plan for your IPv6 address space: “Integrating IPv6 Into Your Network: Five Steps for Building Your IPv6 Address Plan“. Guidance on planning your IPv6 addressing is definitely a topic I have in our Read more…
Apr 30
Slides: Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) Observations and Recommendations
What is Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) all about?[1] What are the problems associated with using it? What role, if any, should it play in networks during the transition from IPv4 to IPv6? At the recent North American IPv6 Summit, Chris Grundemann of Cable Labs addressed exactly these points – and now has published a blog Read more…
Apr 27
Friday Video – IPv6: The Internet for Generations to Come
Yes, “IPv6: The Internet for Generations to Come,” is a slickly produced Cisco marketing video… but hey, it’s well-done and talks about World IPv6 Launch on June 6, 2012! We need more videos out there with messages like this one… …and I mean, really, you have to love the passion of Cisco Fellow Mark Townsley Read more…
Apr 27
DNSsexy.net – News from the DNS blogosphere
Looking for news about DNS and DNSSEC that is happening around the Internet? If so, check out: dnssexy.net DNSsexy is a news aggregation site built and maintained by Jan-Piet Mens that pulls together DNS-related items from a variety of blogs and news sources. Do note that this is DNS in general… so it covers a Read more…
Apr 27
Today’s VUC Call All About The "FreeSWITCH Cookbook" – Noon US Eastern
Today at noon US Eastern on the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) Call for Friday, April 27th, the group will discuss the brand new "FreeSWITCH Cookbook "[1] published by PACKT Publishing. The four authors of the book, who are also leaders…
Apr 26
Comcast Formally Launches IPv6 Home Networking Pilot
This is huge! In a pair of blog posts today Comcast formally launched its IPv6 “Home Networking Pilot”: IPv6 Home Networking Pilot Market Launch Begins, by Jason Livingood IPv6 Home Networking Pilot Market Deployment Technical Details, by John Jason Brzozowski As I explained in an earlier post about this impending launch, support for home networks Read more…
Apr 26
FreeBSD IPv6 Performance Analysis Project Brings Parity With IPv4
The FreeBSD Foundation posted this week about the completion of a “IPv6 Performance Analysis Project” that had as its main goal closing the gap between IPv4 and IPv6 in terms of performance. Bjoern Zeeb was awarded a grant to perform this work earlier this year and has maintained a “Benchmarking and results” page showing his Read more…
Apr 26
Looking for IPv6 Training or Courseware? Check Out RIPE NCC’s Offerings
Interested in taking training classes about IPv6?Looking for IPv6-related courseware? Or IPv6 exercises you can use in your own training classes? As we’ve now noted in our resource directory, RIPE NCC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the European region, offers an IPv6 training course available to RIPE NCC members – and offers IPv6 courseware Read more…
Apr 26
Nic.at Publishes DNSSEC Report With .AT Statistics, Info
This month the folks at Nic.at, the Austrian registry, published an interesting “.at report” that was entirely devoted to DNSSEC and was full of statistics and charts. The driver for this focused report was the DNSSEC signing of the .at domain on February 29, 2012. This report, one of a series of regular reports from Read more…
