Windows administrators in modern data centers occasionally deal with Linux systems, for example when a vendor delivers its appliance as a VM running the Linux OS. Beginners need to know basics of ...
An IP address is a 32-bit unsigned integer. It’s usually written as four numbers separated by dots, as in: 212.227.196.186. This format is knows as the “dotted decimal notation”. Applications use ...
Nick Hardiman explains the seemingly arcane engineering of the IPv6 address. Find out what makes it tick. Let’s take a long hard look at an IPv6 address. Amazon supply IPv6 addresses with their EC2 ...