The Number Resource Organization warned Monday that the number of available IPv4 addresses had slipped below 10 percent, with one service predicting that the available addresses will expire in a bit ...

The brain has a funny way of increasing the relative importance of any particular issue with temporal proximity. In other words, it is well known that we tend to do things at the last minute (no, ...

One of the vexing things about IP Security (IPSec) VPNs is network address translation (NAT); that is, converting private IP addresses to public ones when traffic crosses a firewall so Internet ...

Microsoft has been forced to start using its global stock of IPv4 addresses to keep its Azure cloud service afloat in the U.S., highlighting the growing importance of making the shift to IP version 6.

It turns out even the internet operates within finite dimensions. The web is about to exhaust its supply of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Now, technology companies are scrambling to get onto a new ...

Because I serve as an occasional docent at the Computer History Museum, I get messages from the other docents. These messages usually contain some pretty interesting and arcane information about ...