internet architecture

India's efforts at setting up a National Internet Registry have gathered momentum, with the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the registry for this part of the world, putting up the application moved by the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) for public comments which will be received till month-end. The registries handle the allocation and registration of the number resources required for routing Internet traffic. The Internet is dependent on a number-based address system (Inter  

The underlying technology powering the Internet is going through a major overhaul as IPv6 is slowly replacing the aging IPv4, the most widely used networking protocol. The adoption rate has been slow but more and more companies are implementing the new protocol. Google is already one of the biggest adopters and is now working on introducing support to its hugely popular video site YouTube.

YouTube is the IPv6 team's number one priority right now   -Erik Kline

 

IPv6 is the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol, known as IPv4. IPv6 features vastly more address space, built-in security and enhancements for streaming media and peer-to-peer applications. All carriers and enterprises must run IPv6 when IPv4 addresses are depleted , which is expected in 2012. Hurricane Electric claims to be the No. 1 IPv6 backbone in the world in terms of the number of IPv6 networks that it peers with and the number of IPv6 routes that it announces.

This rapid growth uniquely positions Hurricane Electric's network to be able to provide the best native IPv6 connectivity to our business partners in strategic locations all over the world   -Martin Levy

 

Google already supports IPv6 with its Search, Alerts, Docs, Finance, Gmail, Health, iGoogle, News, Reader, Picasa, Maps and Wave products. Google's Chrome operating system -- whose source code was released this week -- supports IPv6, as does its Android platform for mobile devices. For example, if a Verizon Droid user connects to a Wi-Fi network with IPv6, the user will be able to connect to IPv6 Web sites.

YouTube is the IPv6 team's number one priority right now   -Erik Kline

 

ISPs have strongly disagreed with government claims that they back the anti-copyright-infringement measures proposed in the Digital Economy Bill, and UK-based registries have expressed outrage at the idea of the government seizing control of domain-name registration. The bill, unveiled on Friday , would make it possible to have persistent file-sharers of copyrighted material disconnected from the internet . It would also allow the government to take over the allocation and registration of domain names b  

A fter the DNS servers figured out where we were after the change of sever, I started beating up on this new configuration. As it turns out, the Apache hosted system we're on now is about twice as fast as the Microsoft-based system we were on…. and that's even before adding the various speedups, involving DB cache and page cache and so on. We're having a few issues with the editor just now, or at least I am… it seems to be having problems with the upload/insert graphics functions, which means I'm back  

Three men were charged by federal indictment Nov. 19 in connection with attacking Comcast.net and redirecting traffic to sites under their control. The group altered Comcast's DNS records and is estimated to have cost the company more than $128,000. Three men have been charged by federal authorities for redirecting traffic for Comcast.net last year to sites under the trio's control.  

As the Internet continues to grow in both users and usage, the underlying DNS ( define ) infrastructure is growing along with it. Today at its Analyst Day event, root DNS operator VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) said that it had completed its Project Titan DNS upgrade ahead of schedule. Project Titan, originally forecast to entail a $100 million investment , has expanded VeriSign's ability to handle DNS queries by a factor of 10, the company boasted.

We've got a lot of capacity today but we don't think we're done   -Ken Silva

 

At the Internet Governance Forum meeting here in Egypt, a session on critical Internet resources started with yet another discussion of the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. This time, talk turned to paying for the upgrade to IPv6—a real issue in poorer countries. Rod Beckstrom, the head of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN), offered his own novel approach to the problem: a worldwide "cash for clunkers" program targeted at old networks.

There will be enough addresses for everyone—300 trillion-trillion-trillion addresses. The perception is that this process is slow or it somehow should be faster. It is simply not the case. It is a choice that we will transition in the future when it’s necessary, when we're ready, when we're justified.   -Paul Wilson

 

Port Address Translation (PAT), is an extension to network address translation ( NAT ) that permits multiple devices on a local area network ( LAN ) to be mapped to a single public IP address . The goal of PAT is to conserve IP addresses. Most home networks use PAT. In such a scenario, the Internet Service Provider ( ISP ) assigns a single IP address to the home network's router .