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What Is IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6)? Definition, Features, and Uses

IT Toolbox

The IETF’s newest internet protocol, IPv6, helps locate computers on a network and route traffic while driving scalability. The post What Is IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6)? Definition, Features, and Uses appeared first on Spiceworks.

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New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

All Things Distributed

New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. See the Route 53 detail page for the exact definitions and how SLA violations will be handled. Elastic Load Balancing support for IPV6. To support the continuous growth of the Internet it is essential that IPv6 will be enabled. All Things Distributed.

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Bogons: Do not let them in or through your networks

CTOvision

But filtering the full bogon list requires about 5000 rules for IPv4 and about 70,000 rules for IPv6. Additionally, IPv4 networks are not safe from an IPv6 bogon bandwidth flooding attack. Although this is not the precise definition of a bogon, this unauthorized use of your network is bogus and bad and should also be stopped.

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DDoS: Understand The Growing Threat From Botnet #14

CTOvision

An attack of that size could definitely take a small country down. If IoT devices supporting IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN) are introduced, the potential for larger DDoS attacks compounds. It is hypothesized that Botnet #14 could be the same operator that took Dyn down recently.

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Jeff Geerling has a great article on why he returned his 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar ; it’s definitely worth a read, in my opinion. I won’t steal Matt’s thunder; go have a look at the post yourself to see if you agree with his assessment.

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Around the World in 28 Days - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

AWS Startup Event in Tel Aviv on October 12 with customers Porticor , SemantiNet , Live Definition. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. AWS Solutions Architect Matt Tavis will present on " Architecting for the Cloud ". In India there will be 3 AWS Cloud Computing events. Spot Instances - Increased Control.

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Technology Short Take #49

Scott Lowe

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. upgrade in your environment.

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