IP addresses are a crucial component of network configuration. Humans rely on hostnames and switches to manage traffic with MAC addresses, while routers and hosts use IP addresses to make networking ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

How do you most easily identify the host of an active IP address on your network with no record in DNS or WINS? Our first inclination would be to run a packet sniffer to look at what protocols are ...

IPv6 offers several ways that aren’t possible in IPv4 to assign IP addresses, and DNS set-up has differences as well. As IP technology has matured, the range of devices that the internet protocol ...

Even though we’re no longer running out of IP addresses, Network Address Translation still plays a vital role. Learn the six types of NAT and how each one is used to improve network security, ...