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I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.

Saturday, July 11, 2015

IPv4 Addresses Exhausted

Stephen Lawson reports that IPv4 addresses are about exhausted. This restricts the deployment of devices limited to IPv4 addressing.

-DD

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Thursday, March 20, 2014

IPv6 Security

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a publication called "Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6 ."
IPv4 (the current addressing standard for the Internet) has a limited number of addresses for identifying things (computers, devices, etc.) on the Internet, and the store of unused addresses is almost exhausted. The move to a larger addressing scheme is readily admitted, but security problems need to be avoided during the move from the old to new addressing methods.

-DD

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