Late Wednesday evening, Google employees posted an "Internet-Draft" outlining proposed changes to the DNS protocol that allow authoritative DNS servers to see the addresses of clients. This way, geographically distributed content delivery...
>90% of IPv4 address space used; IPv6 move looking messy
The Number Resource Organization warns that less than 10 percent of the IPv4 address space remains; it's time to start adopting IPv6. The warning comes after APNIC, the registry that hands out IP addresses in the Asia-Pacific region, obtained an additional 33.5 million IPv4 addresses from IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority....
Facebook, AT&T play fast and loose with user authentication
This past week, several users reported visiting Facebook, and, well, seeing the wrong face. Without any action on their part, a number of AT&T smartphone users found themselves logged into the popular...
A decade’s worth of IPv4 addresses
1,370 million IPv4 addresses were used up this past decade. We have 722 million left, so the bottom of the pool is in sight.
...Google Public DNS service not ideal for everyone
Apparently on a quest to to provide every Internet-related service itself, Google has now added the Google Public DNS service. The search giant claims performance benefits for many users (depending on...
ICANN to prohibit nonexistent-domain redirect for new TLDs
Earlier this week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published a draft of an "explanatory memorandum" for a proposed clause that prohibits the managers of new generic...
Better router tech: Mind the flows, not the packets
In a recent article for the IEEE's Spectrum magazine, Dr. Lawrence Roberts explains how the large routers that power the core of...
