2.5 Admins 300: IPvWot?

Why a proposal for an alternative to IPv6 is unlikely to be viable, Microsoft really doesn’t want you to run Exchange Server on-prem, Google will finally stop being a proper search engine, setting up an email server for internal use, and mitigating DDoS attacks without Cloudflare.

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Tuning ZFS for Databases (klarasystems.com/articles/tuning-openzfs-for-p…)

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News/discussion

Veteran network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v6 (theregister.com/networks/2026/05/12/veteran-ne…)

Exchange Server zero-day vulnerability can be triggered by opening a malicious email (csoonline.com/article/4171903/exchange-server-…)

Google Search as you know it is over (techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you…)

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