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Introducing IPv6 | Classifying IPv6 Addresses

02/09/2012

Bearded IPv6

As with IPv4, an IPv6 address serves as an identifier for an interface or group of interfaces. Also like IPv4, IPv6 addresses come in several types, based on how they represent those interfaces. IPv6 has three types of addresses. This post covers all three, plus some special purpose addresses as well.

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The Last Five IPv4 “Slash Eights” (/8s)

01/31/2011

Not overly surprisingly, APNIC officially received two more IPv4 /8 (“slash eights”) from the IANA today: Hi, The IANA IPv4 registry has been updated to reflect the allocation of two IPv4 /8 blocks to APNIC in January 2011: 39/8 and 106/8. 39/8   APNIC   2011-01 whois.apnic.net ALLOCATED 106/8   APNIC   2011-01 whois.apnic.net ALLOCATED [...]

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IPv4 IANA Allocations Post Exhaustion

08/30/2010

IANA Logo

Global Policy for IPv4 Allocations by the IANA Post Exhaustion I have been working with a team of other concerned netizens on a new global policy proposal since the spring ARIN meeting in Toronto. It started as a lunch time conversation and grew from there. The idea was spurred by last year’s attempt to enact [...]

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