IPv6 News

This week Erion’s David Holder spoke at an IPv6 conference at Google. The presentation was enititled IPv6 on Windows. It covered the status of IPv6 on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista as well as pointing out some of the details that you need to be aware of as Windows administrators and developers.

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Yesterday I carried out the first every join of a Samba 3.2 server to a Windows domain over IPv6.
At last year’s CIFS workshop at Google, I spoke about IPv6 enabling Samba (see Preparing Samba for Windows Server 2008 and IPv6). I pointed out that IPv6 enabling Samba would be a critical requirement in 2008. Two […]

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We recently announced that Windows Vista received its IPv6 Ready logo from the IPv6 Consortium and University of New Hampshire - InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL). Today we are proud to announce that Windows Server 2008 has received its Phase 2 logo on Jan…(read more)

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Joe Davies, a.k.a. “The Cable Guy”, has completed the update to his excellent “Understanding IPv6″ book! I highly recommend this book - it will help you understand IPv6 in general as well as some Microsoft-specific information. Good stuff! Understanding…(read more)

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On February 4, 2008, ICANN will add IPv6 addresses for four root DNS servers to the root zone file, making full IPv6 Internet connections a reality. Time to check that DNS software and those firewalls to avoid any possible trouble.

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