Overcoming the challenges of IPv6 support in BIND
Guest Post: The slow transition to IPv6 has made for some interesting and ongoing challenges for BIND developers but there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Tag: IPv6
IPv6 and Rust
Guest Post: NLnet Labs shares their experience with Rust’s support for IPv6.
Why is a /48 the recommended minimum prefix size for routing?
Proper IPv6 address planning can make network management easier now and in the future.
A developer’s take on IPv6 and DHCP
Guest Post: Learn how a fascination in IPv6 and a Masters thesis led to Dibbler, DHCPv6 and ultimately, Kea.
New IP and emerging communications technologies
What technologies will play a prominent role in the Internet over the next decade?
Getting IPv6 private addressing right
Guest Post: Unique Local Unicast Addresses are another example of IPv6 being treated similarly as IPv4.
SRv6 micro-instructions
Guest Post: An SRv6 extension enables up to six micro-instructions to be carried in each 16-byte instruction.
SRv6: Deployed use-cases
Guest Post: As of 2019, Segment Routing over IPv6 data plane (SRv6) has been deployed in eight large-scale networks; supported more than 25 hardware implementations at line rate; and implemented in 11 open-source platforms/applications.
Measuring the IPv6 network periphery
Guest Post: IPv6 network periphery is a new term to describe newly measured intricacies of IPv6 CPE and routers at the edge.
What is SRv6 network programming?
Guest Post: SRv6 enables you to code directly into each packet header where the traffic should be sent and how it should be treated.