Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

2011-04-24 Thread Peter Merchant
On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 22:28 +0100, Chris Dennis wrote: On 19/04/11 22:49, Tim wrote: Thought you might like this http://test-ipv6.com/ Can anyone recommend any books on IPv6? I've found this webpage to be useful, although a lot of it is from a Windows point of view:

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

2011-04-23 Thread Chris Dennis
On 19/04/11 22:49, Tim wrote: Thought you might like this http://test-ipv6.com/ Can anyone recommend any books on IPv6? I've found this webpage to be useful, although a lot of it is from a Windows point of view:

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

2011-04-22 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:53:11 +0100, cgden...@btinternet.com said: I know there's plain ip6tables, but can people recommend an easy-to-use system for maintaining firewalls? Shorewall. Not a GUI, but it does an excellent job for both IPv4 and IPv6. -- You can have everything in life you want

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

2011-04-22 Thread Chris Dennis
On 22/04/11 01:30, Andrew Morgan wrote: On 21/04/11 20:21, Chris Dennis wrote: I've just had a couple of emails from Jason Fesler who runs test-ipv6.com, and he says: \ Unless you're trying to reach sites that are IPv6-only and have no way to be reached via IPv4, I'd consider disabling teredo

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready?

2011-04-21 Thread David Wilkinson
On 20/04/11 12:42, Chris Dennis wrote: On 19/04/11 22:49, Tim wrote: Thought you might like this http://test-ipv6.com/ My ISP (UKFSN / Entanet) seems to be ready, but how do I actually get an IPV6 connection? Can anyone recommend a suitable wifi-enabled ADSL router for IPV6? cheers

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

2011-04-21 Thread David Wilkinson
On 20/04/11 00:27, Robert Bronsdon wrote: Is there any reason the DNS has to come from your ISP? Could you not run your own local IPv6 enabled DNS server? There is no reason it has to be your ISP's DNS servers, you can run your own. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

2011-04-21 Thread Chris Dennis
On 19/04/11 23:47, Andrew Morgan wrote: In Ubuntu (and presumably Debian?) IPv6 support is as easy as 'apt-get install miredo'. It seems to be made of magic as it sets its self up automatically in seconds. I've done this on all of my Linux machines now. As IPv6 doesn't do NAT, miredo gives

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

2011-04-21 Thread Andrew Morgan
On 21/04/11 20:21, Chris Dennis wrote: I've just had a couple of emails from Jason Fesler who runs test-ipv6.com, and he says: \ Unless you're trying to reach sites that are IPv6-only and have no way to be reached via IPv4, I'd consider disabling teredo and miredo. You're intentionally

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

2011-04-20 Thread StarLion
Well, my ISP and router don't support IPv6 but I discovered Miredo (Teredo) a while ago. It doesn't seem to work if both ends are using Teredo behind IPv4 NAT, but other than that it does allow you to connect to the IPv6 internet. In Ubuntu (and presumably Debian?) IPv6 support is as easy as

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready?

2011-04-20 Thread Andrew Morgan
On 20/04/11 12:42, Chris Dennis wrote: Can anyone recommend a suitable wifi-enabled ADSL router for IPV6? The only one I've used was a 2Wire router, a long time ago. I think BT were doing an IPv6 test and I was surprised to find I got a real IPv6 address on it. Your best bet might be

[Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

2011-04-19 Thread Tim
Thought you might like this http://test-ipv6.com/ Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Merchant
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 22:49 +0100, Tim wrote: Thought you might like this http://test-ipv6.com/ Tim Your IPv4 address on the public internet appears to be 78.147.176.105 No IPv6 address detected [more info] World IPv6 day is June 8th, 2011. No problems are anticipated for you with this

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

2011-04-19 Thread David Wilkinson
On 19/04/11 22:49, Tim wrote: Thought you might like this http://test-ipv6.com/ Tim -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue I am ready and have been

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

2011-04-19 Thread Andrew Morgan
On 19/04/11 22:49, Tim wrote: Thought you might like this http://test-ipv6.com/ Well, my ISP and router don't support IPv6 but I discovered Miredo (Teredo) a while ago. It doesn't seem to work if both ends are using Teredo behind IPv4 NAT, but other than that it does allow you to connect

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

2011-04-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Andrew, With Miredo I got 10/10 and 9/10 because my ISP's DNS server doesn't support IPv6. Do you get that elusive last point if you switch to 8.8.4.4 and/or 8.8.8.8? Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ...

Re: [Dorset] IPv6 day are you ready

2011-04-19 Thread Andrew Morgan
On 20/04/11 00:07, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Andrew, With Miredo I got 10/10 and 9/10 because my ISP's DNS server doesn't support IPv6. Do you get that elusive last point if you switch to 8.8.4.4 and/or 8.8.8.8? No, still 9/10. According to the info on the test which fails: *Confirmation:*