Binding to an IPv6 subnet
The team at APNIC Labs discuss how to bind a network interface to an entire subnet of IP addresses without having to enumerate individual addresses.
Tag: IPv4
IPv6 Performance – Revisited
APNIC Labs has a new reporting tool that can show the performance of IPv6 relative to IPv4 at both a country-by-country level and a network-by-network level.
Happy Eyeballs – promoting a healthy IPv4 and IPv6 coexistence
A recent study to measure the impact of the Happy Eyeballs (HE) algorithm has shown that 18% of Alexa’s top 10,000 websites are faster over IPv6 than IPv4.
IPv4 Recovered Pool waiting list now activated
Let’s look at how the IPv4 Recovered Pool waiting list will work.
Fragmenting IPv6
Geoff returns to the subject of IP packet fragmentation, this time looking at how IPv6 has changed the behaviour of packet fragmentation and discussing the concern of whether IPv6 can handle big packets.
The Internet for Things
The Internet of Things without the Internet is just things. So, what does the Internet bring to things to justify a capital T?
Event Wrap: ARIN 37
APNIC participated at ARIN 37, held recently in Montego Bay, Jamaica, from 17 to 20 April 2016.
Event Wrap: IETF 95 & DNS OARC 24, Buenos Aires
APNIC participated at the DNS-OARC 24 workshop and IETF 95 meeting held back-to-back from 31 March to 8 April in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
IETF 95: Declaring IPv6 an ‘Internet Standard’
Will it make any difference to declare IPv6 an ‘Internet Standard’ within the definition of the IETF’s standards process?
IPv6 and the Internet of Things
‘Things’ in today’s Internet are not reliant on an IPv6 network, but that won’t always be the case.