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Xerocole, the intelligent broadband DNS company, today announced that its CTO, noted Internet expert and National Public Radio technology commentator Rob Fleischman, has published his list of the biggest domain name system (DNS) challenges that face broadband providers when they flip the switch on World IPv6 Launch Day. IPv6 is the new internet protocol that replaces IPv4, and provides a virtually unlimited number of IP addresses. It will enable every Internet-connected device in the world computer, phone, tablet, car, refrigerator, etc. to have a unique IP address, but this flexibility will impose new challenges on internet service providers (ISPs).

A short video of Rob Fleischman explaining the potential DNS pitfalls associated with IPv6 deployments is available here.

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Most of the equipment and software used by internet service providers has been IPv6 compliant for a while, said Rob Fleischman, CTO of Xerocole.

They have tested to see whether their domain name system (DNS) servers can make IPv6 queries, known as AAAA queries, and they seem to work. We decided to scratch the surface to find what, if anything, ISPs should be worried about once the switch to IPv6 happens on a global scale, he added.

As it turns out, there are a few issues that could cause broadband internet providers some problems, which are worth sharing, he concluded.

Top DNS Challenges for ISPs in an IPv6 World

Some versions of desktop operating systems will make AAAA record queries regardless of whether they have an IPv6 connection or not. This can result in timeouts as those desktops try to initiate IPv6 connections (which they can't) to hosts that publish AAAA records to the world. Eventually, those attempts will timeout and the host will retry using IPv4. This has the potential to light up ISP call centers with customer service complaints.

Since Antispam DNSBL usage involves checking SMTP inbound IPs against a remote DNS zone, the use of IPv6 explodes the number of potential address checks. A single IPv6 allocation can arm a spammer with enough unique addresses to try against an operators mail server for thousands of years. The result? If a mail server makes all those DNSBL lookups against a carriers DNS, it can easily result in "cache-busting"/DOS-style behavior.

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Microsoft has integrated Kinect into Internet Explorer, which will be available this fall on the Xbox 360.

The Xbox 360 will soon have Internet Explorer.

Microsoft has brought its Internet Explorer browser to another location.

According to the software company at its E3 keynote speech today, Internet Explorer will deliver "for the first time, a fast, fluid, Web experience in the living room." With help from Kinect, users will be able to have full voice control over the browser on the Xbox 360.

To add a bit more flavor (and control) to the browser, Microsoft has also integrated its Smart Glass platform into Internet Explorer, allowing users to scroll around the page, click links, and pinch and zoom from their smartphone or tablet.

Microsoft also announced that Smart Glass would be added to Windows 8, as well, but didn't provide additional details.

According to Microsoft, Internet Explorer will be made available this fall on the Xbox 360.

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PHOENIX, AZ--(Marketwire -06/04/12)- A recent MSNBC report analyzes the effects of one Gallup poll that was released a few weeks ago. After surveying 60,000 women, the poll found that unemployed stay-at-home moms were generally more depressed and angrier than employed women. In addition, these stay-at-home mothers claimed they smiled less, learned less interesting things and were struggling with their daily responsibilities. While these figures may prove discouraging to mothers, the MSNBC article encourages at-home women to achieve a sense of accomplishment that is commonly associated with positive emotions. Internet Solution Source is one company that understands the restrictions that may keep a mother from pursuing a job away from home, and offers an alternative for these parents to experience feelings of independence.

In the report, Robi Ludwig, psychotherapist, says many of these feelings stem from isolation. "It's hard to feel accomplished. It's hard to define themselves because they're overloaded with the have-to-dos of the home. It's a job that's never complete," Ludwig adds. The psychotherapist and Today.com contributor says that even if a woman cannot take on a full-time job, any kind of work that is not associated with the home can curb negative emotions. "There have been studies that suggest the happiest women are women who have kids and can work part time and have a bit more flexibility over their schedule."

Internet Solution Source joins this conversation by offering a way for women to take on a new professional life, without compromising their responsibilities. The company gives stay-at-home parents, retirees and college students a way to supplement their income through online affiliate marketing. With a small membership fee, members are invited to set up online stores that sell products from several manufacturers. As a result, users obtain a portion of the profit.

According to Internet Solution Source, what may be the greatest part of the program is that it is easy-to-use and easy-to-understand. For the stay-at-home mother that is facing schedule constraints, this can prove a viable option. After simple tutorials that are provided by the company, these women could have their own affiliate stores set up in a relatively short amount of time.

The program does not dictate hours, and users can choose to operate their websites anywhere from an hour a day to full time. Internet Solution Source believes this option is a great choice for mothers who do not have the time or resources to search for a part-time job outside of the home. The company says that the program offers a chance for negatively affected stay-at-home moms to take a quick break, run their own business, and easily return to their parental responsibilities without stress.

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The time for testing is over as Facebook, Cisco, Comcast, and others will soon permanently enable next-generation Internet technology with vastly more elbow room. What's it all mean?

What began as a 24-hour test a year ago will become business as usual on Wednesday as a range of big-name Internet companies permanently switch on the next-generation IPv6 networking technology.

And now there's no turning back.

"IPv6 is being enabled and kept on by more than 1,500 Web sites and ISPs in 22 countries," said Arbor Networks, a company that monitors global Internet traffic closely.

Internet Protocol version 6 has one big improvement over the prevailing IPv4 standard it's designed to supplant: room to grow. However, moving to IPv6 isn't simple, which is why many organizations on the Internet have banded together for Wednesday's World IPv6 Launch event overseen by a standards and advocacy group called the Internet Society.

In practice, IPv6 has been gradually arriving on the Net already, and there's a long way to go after the event. But the launch day is a real milestone. Here's a look at some of the issues involved.

Why all the IPvWhatever fuss? Because the Internet is running out of room.

Today, IPv4 is used to describe the network address to almost all smartphones, PCs, servers, and Internet-enabled refrigerators so that other devices can exchange data. For example, your computer needs to know the IP address of CNET News to read this story, and CNET's server needs to know your computer's IP address to send the Web page information to it.

IPv4, though, offers only 4.3 billion addresses (2 to the 32nd power, or 4,294,967,296, to be precise). That may sound like a lot, but there are ever more devices to connect to the Internet, and many of the IPv4 addresses are inaccessibly squirreled away by organizations that got large tracts of them earlier in the history of the Internet.

The upshot is that the problem called IPv4 address exhaustion is real: the pipeline of new ones is emptying out. That's a problem for businesses that want to set up new Internet services or for carriers wanting to sell another few million smartphones.

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The online industry is gearing up for what promises to be a watershed moment in the history of the internet on 6 June - a day known as World IPv6 Launch.

On that day, internet service providers (ISPs), home router manufacturers and web companies around the world will permanently enable version six of the IP addressing scheme (IPv6) for their products and services, in an attempt to kickstart a global transition to the new internet protocol.

Participating ISPs, such and AT&T, Comcast and the UK's education network Janet, will enable IPv6 for enough users so that at least one percent of their residential subscribers who visit participating websites will do so using IPv6.

Meanwhile, home networking equipment manufacturers, such as Cisco and D-Link, will enable IPv6 by default through their home router products, and web companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft Bing will permanently enable IPv6 on their main websites.

IPv6 is seen as critical to the internet's continued growth, as the current protocol, IPv4, allows for just 4.3 billion IP addresses - a number close to exhaustion due to the explosion of internet-connected devices. In comparison, IPv6 allows for 3.4 trillion trillion trillion addresses.

As well as accommodating internet growth for the foreseeable future, IPv6 could also enable the 'Internet of Things' - providing a large enough address pool for every electronic appliance to have an IP address and share data with other appliances in real time without human intervention.

"With IPv6, things are about to get very interesting indeed," said Ben Pirt, VP of engineering at Cosm. "Already we're starting to see devices as diverse as weighing scales, lighting and toasters connect to the Internet of Things. In the near future we're going to see much more sophisticated uses for these connected objects and sensors, helping us to better understand the world around us."

In February 2011, the internet authority IANA allocated its last batch of IPv4 addresses to the regional internet registries (RIRs), which are responsible for local distribution of IP addresses to enterprises and ISPs. When those stocks of IPv4 addresses run out, as has already happened in Asia, the RIRs will have no choice but to start distributing IPv6 addresses.

IPv4 and IPv6 can coexist, but they cannot intercommunicate, meaning that the two protocols will have to run in parallel - or dual stack - for some time, in order to avoid breakages in the network. However, this relies heavily on Network Address Translation (NAT), which limits the performance of the internet.

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