https://wiki.kptree.net/ 2026-09-12T20:44:15+00:00 https://wiki.kptree.net/ https://wiki.kptree.net/_media/wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2025-08-09T03:11:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.kptree.net/tech_notes:dns?rev=1754709083&do=diff Domain names, domain nameservers, DNS and DHCP Domain names, Domain nameservers, DNS and DHCP are a key part of the internet back bone. * DNS (Domain Name System) resolves the text domain names to the relevant IP (Internet Protocol) addresses. * text/html 2022-10-18T05:44:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.kptree.net/tech_notes:ipv6?rev=1666071864&do=diff linux ipv6 IPv6 summary notes Largely taken from * onemarcfifty * What You Need to Know about IPv6 Link-Local Addresses Address length and format The IPv6 address is 128 bits (i.e. 16 bytes) long and is written in 8 groups of 2 bytes in hexadecimal numbers separated by colons: FDDD:F00D:CAFE:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 Leading zeros of each block can be omitted, the above address can hence be written like this: FDDD:F00D:CAFE:0:0:0:0:1 We can abbreviate whole blocks of zeros with :: and w…