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 […]
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
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We’re pleased to announce that SocketTools 7.0 and SocketWrench 7.0 have been released and are available for download. Upgrade pricing is available for developers who are currently using version 6.0 or earlier, and those with active SocketTools Subscriptions can download a free update to the new release. We would also like to thank those developers
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On January 31st, the last of the last of the available IPv4 address blocks were allocated by the IANA. The APNIC registrar requested the last two unreserved /8 address blocks, and this automatically triggered the release of the last 5 reserved address blocks, one to each of the five regional Internet registries (RIRs). Today, the
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SocketTools 6.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been released, with improvements made primarily to the FTP, HTTP and MIME components. This update also includes a change to the SocketWrench component which addresses an issue with how keep-alive packets are generated, and it corrects a general issue with the network debugging library that's included with SocketTools.
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SocketTools 6.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) has been released. We've improved the functionality of the DNS, FTP, HTTP, IMAP, POP3, MIME, NNTP and SMTP components along with some general improvements in the areas of security (SSL and SSH) and core network performance. This is a complete update of the product, along with the hotfixes that
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SocketTools 6.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) has been released and offers improved performance and broader SSH server compatibility, along with a number of corrections to various components and libraries. For developers who are currently using version 6.0, this new service pack includes all of the hotfixes and updates made since the original release and is
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