Today has been designated as World IPv6 Day, when the largest Internet backbones and many of the major Internet search engines and social network sites will test IPv6 deployment. It was originally promoted earlier this year by Akamai, Facebook, Google, Limelight and Yahoo to determine if there were any major problems with IPv6 connectivity and [...]
Archive for the 'Internet Protocols' Category
Today, the regional registrar APNIC, which is responsible for allocating IP addresses in Asia, has run out of freely available IPv4 addresses. This means that everyone who requests an IPv4 address in countries like China and India (where Internet usage is growing very rapidly) will not be able to get one. The next registrar that [...]
One of the new features in SocketTools 7 will be support for IPv6 networks, in addition to IPv4 that most developers are already familiar with. Although IPv6 has been getting a lot of attention recently, it’s actually been around for quite a while now. Work on the protocol began in the early 1990’s and there [...]
SocketTools 6.0 will introduce a new component and API framework that is designed to simplify the process of creating TCP/IP server applications. In the Library Edition, this will be included as extension of the existing SocketWrench API, with additional functions designed to create an instance of the server and manage the client session. In the [...]
One of the significant new features in SocketTools 6.0 will be support for the Secure Shell protocol, also known as SSH. As the name implies, this protocol provides a secure, encrypted connection between the local host and a remote computer, ensuring that third-parties cannot decipher any intercepted network traffic. Originally SSH was used primarily on [...]
We’ve released an updated version of the SocketWrench Tutorial we originally made for the ActiveX control and Visual Basic. This new version uses the SocketWrench .NET component with Visual Studio 2005, and we believe that it is easier to read and understand, focusing on the developer who is new to Internet programming. The tutorial is [...]
Over the past several years, greylisting has become increasing popular among mail server administrators in an effort to combat spam. It works by having the server temporarily reject any email message from a sender that it does not recognize. This will cause the sender’s mail server to wait for a while and then attempt to [...]