Well, here it comes. World IPv6 Day. Initially, I thought major sites that are participating were going to turn OFF IPv4 for their test, but reading up on it today, I don't think so. Maybe someone more in the know could chip in about that?
Anyhow, I've posted several times on Facebook about this, doing my small part to spread the word about IPv6. For those who somehow have missed out on the history behind it, and are completely clueless; well, first, crawl out from under your rock, then head over to test-ipv6.com. First it'll run some tests for you, then you can start looking up all about it. But the basic low-down is, Vint Cerf, one of the pioneers, basically committed the original IP protocol to use 32bits of address space. Our basic 255.255.255.255 address. Couple this with the way the addresses are handed out, and we come to today, whereby the last of the address space is being assigned. Asia has already run out of their allotment, and the rest of the regions are quickly following, either this year or next.
In the phaseout of IPv4 (version 4) to IPv6, the first step is to run what's called a dual-stack system. Now, I'm a bit confused on exactly what Teredo is, but I can tell you that on XP at least, it enables IPv6 functionality. test-ipv6.com seems happy with it, and as a humble user, that's good enough for me. I seem to be all set.
But what's this? My DNS fails the test. All the work I've done over the past couple years to learn about and implement IPv6 on my home computer, and my home network, may be for naught! Well, there are other DNS providers out there, and if it really does cause problems, we may be able to use those. test-ipv6.com doesn't seem too worried about it -- it says that particular test is "bonus credit".

That's it for this short post about World IPv6 Day. I think it's pretty cool we're inching that much closer to dumping IPv4. I'm tired of dynamic addressing and NAT addressing and all the other kludgy schemes. IPv6 may have its problems, but I think it solves more of them than it creates.


---
■ Synchronet ■ Southeast Texas BBS -- setxbbs.synchro.net

Re: World IPv6 Day
By: Dreamer to All on Tue May 24 2011 11:59 am

That's it for this short post about World IPv6 Day. I think it's pretty cool we're inching that much closer to dumping IPv4. I'm tired of dynamic addressing and NAT addressing and all the other kludgy schemes. IPv6 may have its problems, but I think it solves more of them than it creates.

I'm 10/10 on that site myself.

---
Synchronet - Jump on the Web 0.2 bandwagon!


---
■ Synchronet ■ My Brand-New BBS (All the cool SysOps run STOCK!)

Re: World IPv6 Day
By: Dreamer to All on Tue May 24 2011 11:59 am

That's it for this short post about World IPv6 Day. I think it's pretty cool we're inching that much closer to dumping IPv4. I'm tired
of dynamic addressing and NAT addressing and all the other kludgy schemes. IPv6 may have its problems, but I think it solves more of them than it creates.

I'm 10/10 on that site myself.

Something I still need to get working here... I've had IPv6 working on my local LAN for awhile. Tried setting up an internal router to use for IPv6 (amongst other things, like VPNs) this past weekend but had some hardware issues on the hardware I was trying to use...

Still plan to it that way, and once I do will be able to start testing apps for IPv6 connectivity...



Jame

---
■ Synchronet ■ SBBS x64 Debian Testing

On 6/5/2011 8:17 AM, Jame wrote:

Something I still need to get working here... I've had IPv6 working on my
local LAN for awhile. Tried setting up an internal router to use for IPv6 (amongst other things, like VPNs) this past weekend but had some hardware issues on the hardware I was trying to use...

Still plan to it that way, and once I do will be able to start testing apps
for IPv6 connectivity...

Yeah, I don't get an IPv6 address/block from my ISP propery... may inquire about it but not too worried, since toredo works.. but toredo actually concerns me a lot, since it's basically a tunnel around my router.

--
Michael J. Ryan - http://tracker1.info/

---
■ Synchronet ■ Roughneck BBS - telnet://roughneckbbs.com - www.roughneckbbs.com

On 6/5/2011 8:17 AM, Jame wrote:

Something I still need to get working here... I've had IPv6 working on my local LAN for awhile. Tried setting up an internal router to use for IPv6 (amongst other things, like VPNs) this past weekend but had some hardware issues on the hardware I was trying to use...

Took care of the hardware/software issues with the new setup, at least for IPv4 connections, so the next step is getting some kind of IPv6 connectivity working...

but toredo actually concerns me a lot, since it's basically
a tunnel around my router.

Yeah, it's something you have to think about, and take care of, with any of the IPv6 solutions; can't depend on a firewall at just the edge router,
since the lan systems can also have public access via the IPv6 network...


Jame

---
■ Synchronet ■ SBBS x64 Debian Testing

Re: Re: World IPv6 Day
By: Jame to Tracker1 on Sun Jun 12 2011 11:18 am

Yeah, it's something you have to think about, and take care of, with any of the IPv6 solutions; can't depend on a firewall at just the edge
router, since the lan systems can also have public access via the IPv6 network...

With Toredo, at least you don't have to worry about using client programs.

I really wish my ISP offered IPv6 addresses. Or at least, if they do, they didn't give me a cable modem capable of it. It'd be neat to try going IPv6 only for a while and see what's available.



---
■ Synchronet ■ Southeast Texas BBS -- setxbbs.synchro.net

I really wish my ISP offered IPv6 addresses. Or at least, if they do, they didn't give me a cable modem capable of it. It'd be neat to try going IPv6 only for a while and see what's available.

My ISP apparantly won't offer IPv6 connectivity for a while so in the mean time I now have it via a 6in4 tunnel from Hurricane Electric. (Tried 6to4 as well, but couldn't get it working...)

So, now to work on things like DNS, config my systems for it, & applications, etc...<g>



Jame

---
■ Synchronet ■ SBBS x64 Debian Testing

I'm 10/10 on that site myself.

Only ended up as 9/10 for my first testing of it, due do some kind of DNS issue. Likely a local config issue...

.... Tried setting up an internal router to use for IPv6 (amongst
other things, like VPNs) this past weekend but had some
hardware issues on the hardware I was trying to use...

Resolved all that and ended up getting IPv6 connectivity via a 6in4
tunnel from Hurricane Electric. Still need to finish updating the configuration for it on all of my local systems. One main thing is to finish migrateing the 'Linux VServer' systems over to 'Linux Container' (LXC)
systems; unlike VServers, LXC systems support IPv6.



Jame

---
■ Synchronet ■ SBBS x64 Debian Testing

Re: IPv6 ...
By: Jame to Dreamer on Tue Jun 21 2011 12:12:06

So, now to work on things like DNS, config my systems for it, & applications, etc...<g>

Thankfully IPv6 DNS transition is easy with the AAAA records. :)

My ISP supports IPv6 natively, but that's primarily because I
colo in a web hosting company's data center. I have not done
any research into Synchronet's IPv6 capabilities. Anyone
tinker with this yet?



---
■ Synchronet ■ LEGiON HQ | 517 Reborn in 80x25 | SSH ONLY | bbs.legionhq.net

Re: IPv6 ...
By: Siv to Jame on Tue Jun 21 2011 04:33 pm

Re: IPv6 ...
By: Jame to Dreamer on Tue Jun 21 2011 12:12:06

So, now to work on things like DNS, config my systems for it, & applications, etc...<g>

Thankfully IPv6 DNS transition is easy with the AAAA records. :)

My ISP supports IPv6 natively, but that's primarily because I
colo in a web hosting company's data center. I have not done
any research into Synchronet's IPv6 capabilities. Anyone
tinker with this yet?

Synchronet doesn't support IPv6 (yet).

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #49:
JAM and Squish were considered before developing Synchronet Message Base format.

---
■ Synchronet ■ Vertrauen ■ Home of Synchronet ■ telnet://vert.synchro.net

Re: IPv6 ...
By: Siv to Jame on Tue Jun 21 2011 04:33 pm

My ISP supports IPv6 natively, but that's primarily because I
colo in a web hosting company's data center. I have not done
any research into Synchronet's IPv6 capabilities. Anyone
tinker with this yet?

It's not supported at all. Any connections would have to be tunnelled.


---
■ Synchronet ■ Southeast Texas BBS -- setxbbs.synchro.net

Re: IPv6 ...
By: Digital Man to Siv on Tue Jun 21 2011 16:26:15

Synchronet doesn't support IPv6 (yet).

*nod* Think it will be a huge pain in the butt? I haven't
looked under the hood much below the javascript layer.


---
■ Synchronet ■ LEGiON HQ | 517 Reborn in 80x25 | SSH ONLY | bbs.legionhq.net

Re: IPv6 ...
By: Siv to Digital Man on Wed Jun 22 2011 08:22 am

Re: IPv6 ...
By: Digital Man to Siv on Tue Jun 21 2011 16:26:15

Synchronet doesn't support IPv6 (yet).

*nod* Think it will be a huge pain in the butt? I haven't
looked under the hood much below the javascript layer.

Yes. :-)

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #77:
Synchronet Match Maker had at one time over 4000 profiles of men and women.

---
■ Synchronet ■ Vertrauen ■ Home of Synchronet ■ telnet://vert.synchro.net