March 5, 2021
Understanding IPv4 To IPv6 Tunneling
IPv4 to IPv6 tunneling is a term that relates to the use of the current routing system of the IPv4 address to accommodate the IPv6 traffic. This tunneling helps to effectively migrate to IPv6 by maintaining consistency with the IPv4 routers and hosts that are presently configured. Moreover, you will be able to boost the transfer process to IPv6 by conserving continuity among the infrastructure systems. This is because when you are using IPv6, you will also be able to use the IPv4 networking infrastructure to optimize the available resources. Transition Mechanisms Available Several variants of transition mechanisms are currently available and they are: Semi-automatic tunneling ISATAP tunneling IPv6 over IPv4 GRE tunneling Fully automatic IPv6 to IPV4 tunneling Manually[…]
February 22, 2021
Shared IP Or Dedicated IP: Which Is Best For Email Marketing?
If you are using email marketing, you will want your customers to receive them. Does this mean that you will need your IP to ensure the deliverability of the email messages? Not necessarily. With the help of a dedicated IP address, the emails of a company are the only emails that are routed via the address. On the other hand, a shared IP is used by a bigger group of senders to pool email reputations and resources together. It might seem that by using a dedicated IP you can avoid someone else’s poor marketing habits affecting your business. However, that assumption is not much valid today. Shared IP services offered by email service providers can perform well for many businesses.[…]
February 12, 2021
The IPv4 Address Market – A Few Must-Know’s
In the year 2015, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) fell short of IPv4 addresses and they emphasized the importance for businesses to migrate to IPv6. This also drove the IPv4 sale to new heights. Some businesses needed IPv4 addresses after the exhaustion of the free IPv4 address pool at ARIN and to meet these needs, they turned to other businesses that had spare IPv4 addresses and tried to buy them. These transactions started taking place many years before the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses and after the exhaustion, the IPv4 sale market recorded substantial growth. Shared below are some of the important things that you should know about selling and buying IPv4 addresses. It Is Legal To Buy Or[…]
February 8, 2021
Pros & Cons of Proxy Server – Infographic
The term ‘proxy server’ refers to a remote system that connects an internet user to the server that hosts the website they are trying to access. The server can hide one’s Internet Protocol address with its IP address so that the site will only see the latter address. That means it can mask the user’s online activity and make it seem like they are surfing the internet from a place different from their actual location. So, proxy servers allow accessing geographically restricted content. This infographic covers all of the benefits and disadvantages of using this server for internet users.
January 26, 2021
Smart Ways to Protect Your IP Address from Hackers
An IPv6 or IPv4 address is like the identity of your device in the world of internet. All of the data and traffic transmitted and received over the network to and from your computers and devices are maintained with the help of an IPv6 or IPv4 address. This means that if hackers gain access to your IP address, they can exploit it for various malicious purposes. Worry not – there are many ways to protect your IP address from cybercriminals. Below are a few smart tips to thwart hackers from accessing your IP address. Set Up Unique Passwords Creating strong device and network passwords can easily restrict people from accessing your computers and business or personal networks. Cybercriminals can easily[…]
January 15, 2021
Types of AWS IP Address – Infographic
AWS services come with three forms of Internet Protocol addresses, as shown in this infographic. A public Internet Protocol address comes from a form of subnetwork that can be publicly routed over the internet. A private IP address is useable to communicate from one instance to the other in the Virtual Private Cloud. For your information, an instance here means a virtual web server. An elastic Internet Protocol address is made to facilitate dynamic cloud computing. It is possible to associate Amazon’s virtual server with any one of these three address types. Find more information about these here.
January 11, 2021
Everything You Need to Know About IP Spoofing
Spoofing refers to a particular type of cyberattack, where hackers exploit a device or network to trick other networks by making it seem like a legitimate action. IP spoofing allows cybercriminals to gain access to user computers to mine sensitive personal information and business data, take over the device for malicious use, or run Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. What is IP Spoofing? IP spoofing works by exploiting the data packets sent and received over a network. Hackers use different tools to modify the source IP address in the data packet, which makes the destination IP address see it as a trusted source and accept the transmission. As all of that happens at the network level and there are no signs of[…]
December 25, 2020
Understanding the Differences between TCP/IP and OSI Models
TCP and IP are the two main network protocols or communications standards of the internet. Where TCP defines how different applications can communicate over reliable channels across a network, IP regulates how devices connected to the internet can transmit and receive data over the network or an interconnected set of networks. In other words, IP defines routing and addressing while TCP defines how the connected peripherals can communicate across the IP-mediated link without any data loss. The OSI or Open Systems Interconnection model, on the contrary, defines how the different tasks related to the network communication can be segregated across multiple layers of software and hardware components. It was developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as the ISO/IEC[…]
December 10, 2020
Everything You Need to Know About a Subnet Mask
A subnet, or sub-network, refers to a network within a network, which is assigned to make the parent network more efficient. Administrators use subnets to facilitate effective network traffic over a shorter distance without requiring the signals to pass through multiple routers to reach the destination. A subnet mask is a 32-bit number like an IPv4 address but it masks the IP address for internal purposes and divides the IPv4 address into network address and host address. For instance, network routers employ subnet masks to route data packets to the specified destinations. In general, a subnet mask comprises of network bits that are set to 1s and host bits that are set to 0s. In any network, there are two[…]
December 5, 2020
The Dangers Of Public IPs – Infographic
A public IP address allows connecting your device to the internet and communicating with other devices. With it, your internet-connected device can be located. There may be benefits to using it, but this move also has many disadvantages. For one, the address itself is more expensive than before because of its shrinking supply. This means you may have to pay more money to a public IP address provider if your enterprise requires it. There are other downsides to it, so you must weigh these against its benefits, while considering your requirements, to make informed decisions. Here is an infographic to help you with that decision-making process.
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