DNS Changes to Support IPv6
Version 4 of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) is the basis of today's Internet and the foundation upon which the TCP/IP protocol suite is built. While IPv4 has served us well for over two decades, it has certain important drawbacks that would limit internetworks of the future if it were to continue to be used. For this reason, the next generation of IP, IP version 6 (IPv6), has been in development for many years. IPv6 will eventually replace IPv4 and take TCP/IP into the future.
The change from IPv4 to IPv6 will have effects that ripple to other TCP/IP protocols, including DNS. DNS is a higher-level protocol, so you might think that based on the principle of layering, a change to IP should not affect it. However, this is ...
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