As spotted by Linuxiac, the Arch Linux website is currently under siege from a DDoS attack. This type of attack floods a website with requests from bots, causing the servers to collapse under the ...

You can also disable IPv6 system wide. This requires a few simple entries at the command line that modify a configuration file on your computer. I'll give specific instructions for SUSE 10.x, but a ...

Version 2.6.12 of the Linux kernel is likely to include packet filtering that will work with IPv6, the latest version of the Internet Protocol. Netfilter/iptables, the firewall engine that is part of ...

IPv6 is the next-generation protocol designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to replace IPv4, the current version of the Internet Protocol. IPv4 has been remarkably resilient. However, ...

The IPv6 Workgroup of the Linux Foundation has announced that all major Linux distributions are now in compliance with Department of Defense certification policies, several months after the DoD began ...

One of the benefits of the next-generation Internet protocol known as IPv6 is the enhanced privacy it offers over its IPv4 predecessor. With a staggering 2 128 (or about 3.4×10 38) theoretical ...