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This page has all posts about all subjects. Archive for 2007.

IPv4 address use in 2006

2006 was another busy year for the five Regional Internet Registries: together, they gave out 161.48 million IPv4 addresses, just shy of the 165.45 million given out in 2005 as measured on january first 2006. Lots more information in the 2006 IPv4 Address Use Report.

Permalink - posted 2007-01-01

2006 IPv4 Address Use Report

2006 was another busy year for the five Regional Internet Registries: together, they gave out 161.48 million IPv4 addresses, just shy of the 165.45 million given out in 2005 as measured on january first 2006.

Read the article - posted 2007-01-01

OpenBGPD

OpenBSD, the security conscious sibling in the BSD operating system family, has its own BGP daemon implementation: OpenBGPD.

Permalink - posted 2007-01-30

Quagga

As Zebra progress has been glacial, a group of people created a fork under the name Quagga. Quagga is more community-based and a somewhat better choice than Zebra in an operational environment.

Permalink - posted 2007-01-30

→ New Airport Extreme could expose Macs via IPv6

My first day on the job (so to speak) as contributing writer for Ars Technica I got to combine my two areas of interest: IPv6 and Apple. The Airport Extremes gained IPv6 capability, but this was not firewalled despite the box saying there's a firewall inside.

Read the article - posted 2007-02-15

→ Airport Extreme does Seinfeldian DHCP reservations

Always great to be able to use lines from Seinfeld in a tech story. In this case, you could make DHCP reservations but the Airport Extreme wouldn't use them.

Read the article - posted 2007-03-05

→ Everything you need to know about IPv6

My first big story about IPv6 on Ars Technica, way back in 2007.

Read the article - posted 2007-03-08

BGP security: learning an old dog new tricks

Old dogs can learn new tricks. That's a good thing, because securing inter-domain routing requires a whole bag of them. After lots of talk about S-BGP and soBGP over the past years, more recently, work in the IETF on making inter-domain routing more secure has shifted to a different approach.

Read the article - posted 2007-03-21

Review: the AppleTV

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the AppleTV, we were all wondering what kind of product this would turn out to be. It's finally here now, and reality is very different from what Steve Jobs showed us. In true Apple style, the product has been reduced to its bare essentials: a way to hook up your TV to your Apple (Mac, that is). Nothing more, nothing less.

Read the article - posted 2007-04-01

→ Have your Mac say Bonjour to tout le monde

Your Mac speaks more French than you think: the story of Wide-Area Bonjour and the (dynamic) DNS.

Read the article - posted 2007-04-09

32-bit AS numbers in the wild

In january, Geoff Huston wrote to the NANOG list:

George Michaelson, Randy Bush and myself have successfully tested the implementation of 4Byte AS BGP on a public Internet transit. The above BGP RIB snapshot was taken at a 4Byte BGP speaker in North America, showing a transit path across AS 1221, AS 4637, AS 1239 and AS 3130 , with correct reconstruction of the originating AS at the other (4Byte AS) end.
At the time of this writing, their prefix is no longer visible in the global BGP table...

Read the article - posted 2007-04-12

Cell phones are everywhere

Image link - posted 2007-05-24

iPod ad Chicago

Image link - posted 2007-07-22

The bean in Chicago

Image link - posted 2007-07-24

Original iPhone display in a shop window in Chicago inn 2007

Image link - posted 2007-07-27

→ Wake on LAN: don’t let sleeping Macs lie

Wake up sleeping Macs on your LAN and maybe even across the Internet.

Read the article - posted 2007-09-21

IPv4 Address Consumption

IPv4 Address Consumption
Iljitsch van Beijnum
The Internet Protocol Journal, Vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 22-28, September

Permalink - posted 2007-09-30

→ Apple goes to the office: a review of iWork '08

With the latest version of iWork, Apple has added a spreadsheet to its word processor and presentation software combo. Ars dives into iWork '08 to see if it's enough to tide over Mac users waiting for an Intel-native Office?or even keep them from upgrading.

Read the article - posted 2007-10-10

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