Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-10 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday 10 June 2011 08:52:15 Pandu Poluan wrote: -original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com Date: 2011-06-10 03:52 And another bonus is that there are plenty of funny things we can spell in hexadecimal

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 14:22, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Friday 10 June 2011 08:52:15 Pandu Poluan wrote: -original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com Date: 2011-06-10 03:52 And another bonus

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-10 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday 10 June 2011 17:08:40 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 14:22, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Friday 10 June 2011 08:52:15 Pandu Poluan wrote: -original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com Date: 2011-06-10 03:52 And another bonus is that there are plenty of funny things we can spell in hexadecimal. ;) While I'm sure I'll tag the C001:D00D address

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-10 Thread Dale
OK. I rebooted and I don't think the test results changed anything. Test with IPv4 DNS record ok (1.003s) using ipv4 Test with IPv6 DNS record bad (0.496s) Test with Dual Stack DNS record ok (0.993s) using ipv4 Test for Dual Stack DNS and large

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-10 Thread Joost Roeleveld
10 June 2011 08:52:15 Pandu Poluan wrote: -original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com Date: 2011-06-10 03:52 And another bonus is that there are plenty of funny things we can spell

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Thoughts?  Something I need to check here? Does your ISP offer IPv6? If not, are you using an IPv6 tunnel of some kind? If not, then you don't have IPv6 connection to the Internet, so the results look normal.

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: You have managers that know what an IP address is? iPod, iPhone, iPad... surely iP is something related to that.

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-10 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Thoughts? Something I need to check here? Does your ISP offer IPv6? If not, are you using an IPv6 tunnel of some kind? If not, then you don't have IPv6 connection to the Internet, so the results

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-09 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just hoping html5 will improve some things. May not but doesn't hurt to hope. I just hope it will eliminate some of the things that are such power or memory hogs now. It may not at first but

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 08 June 2011 23:56:32 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Read the FAQ and Info posted. From the website: If this test fails: it means that the DNS resolver you are using, requires IPv4 to reach the DNS authoritative servers of your favoriate web sites. In the near

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 08:52 on Thursday 09 June 2011, Dale did opine thusly: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just hoping html5 will improve some things. May not but doesn't hurt to hope. I just hope it will eliminate

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-09 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 08:52 on Thursday 09 June 2011, Dale did opine thusly: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just hoping html5 will improve some things. May not but doesn't hurt to

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-08 9:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: After that, machines on my local network (including wifi) can get both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses from the router and can talk to the outside world on either network. I'm getting a headache... Is there a decent guide that explains IPV6 for noobs who

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-09 Thread Mick
On 9 June 2011 12:16, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2011-06-08 9:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: After that, machines on my local network (including wifi) can get both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses from the router and can talk to the outside world on either network. I'm getting a

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On my wife's Windows 7 laptop, it just worked perfectly after I enabled it on my router and her wifi reconnected. All tests on test-ipv6.com pass except for the last DNS test. She can go to sites like

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, Windows Vista and 7 generate randomized host IDs for public IPv6 addresses, it's generally advised to disable that. You can do that by running this at administrator cmd prompt: netsh interface ipv6 set global

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2011-06-08 9:25 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: After that, machines on my local network (including wifi) can get both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses from the router and can talk to the outside world on either network. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-09 Thread Mick
On Thursday 09 Jun 2011 16:51:29 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, Windows Vista and 7 generate randomized host IDs for public IPv6 addresses, it's generally advised to disable that. You can do that by running this at

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I take it that loading this module would cut both ways.  If I were to allow connections to my server only for *my* IP address, then that would be quite difficult to achieve if my IP address changed every few minutes. Since

RE: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-09 Thread Pandu Poluan
-original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com Date: 2011-06-10 03:52 And another bonus is that there are plenty of funny things we can spell in hexadecimal. ;) While I'm sure I'll tag the C001:D00D address for my

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 07 June 2011 20:27:45 Dale wrote: 11: Test mit IPv4 DNS Eintrag ok (0.712s) verwende ipv4 Test mit IPv6 DNS Eintrag ok (0.712s) verwende ipv6 6to4 Test mit Dual Stack DNS Eintrag ok (0.726s) verwende ipv4 Test mit Dual Stack und grosse Pakete

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2011 20:27:45 Dale wrote: 11: Test mit IPv4 DNS Eintrag ok (0.712s) verwende ipv4 Test mit IPv6 DNS Eintrag ok (0.712s) verwende ipv6 6to4 Test mit Dual Stack DNS Eintrag ok (0.726s) verwende ipv4 Test mit

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Funny thing is, I use googles DNS servers.  8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are the settings.  I find it ironic that Google is one of the ones hosting this event and it appears their server is not ready.  Makes me think. Dale scratches chin

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Paul Hartman
2011/6/8 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com: 11: Test mit IPv4 DNS Eintrag ok (0.712s) verwende ipv4 Test mit IPv6 DNS Eintrag ok (0.712s) verwende ipv6 6to4 Test mit Dual Stack DNS Eintrag ok (0.726s) verwende ipv4 Test mit Dual Stack und grosse Pakete ok (0.665s) verwende

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Should I have the USE flag ipv6 enabled or should I leave it off for now?  If so, anyone had any trouble with it or is this a trivial change? Enable the IPv6 stuff in kernel, enable ipv6 USE flag in your make.conf, rebuild any

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:45 on Wednesday 08 June 2011, Paul Hartman did opine thusly: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Funny thing is, I use googles DNS servers. 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are the settings. I find it ironic that Google is one of the ones

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011 20:51:10 Paul Hartman wrote: 2011/6/8 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com: 11: Test mit IPv4 DNS Eintrag ok (0.712s) verwende ipv4 Test mit IPv6 DNS Eintrag ok (0.712s) verwende ipv6 6to4 Test mit Dual Stack DNS Eintrag ok (0.726s) verwende

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011 20:51:10 Paul Hartman wrote: Charter Communications cable internet: Test with IPv4 DNS record ok (0.580s) using ipv4 Test with IPv6 DNS record ok (0.268s) using ipv6 Test with Dual Stack DNS

RE: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
-original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com Date: 2011-06-09 08:25 And now I'll try not to talk about Windows on this list again for the remainder of the year. ;) Naaah, is okay... as long as you don't do it excessively

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: Enable the IPv6 stuff in kernel, enable ipv6 USE flag in your make.conf, rebuild any packages that were -ipv6 before, and you should be good to go from a basics standpoint. After that, you need actual IPv6 service from your ISP (and modem and router), or tunnel over IPv4

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 09:15, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Now what was I thinking.  Oh, wait.  I wasn't thinking.  There was the problem right there.  I hadn't enabled any of the IPv6 stuff in the kernel.  Jeeez, what a idiot.  I haven't even thought of the kernel settings. sighs You

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 08 June 2011 13:59:36 Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2011 20:27:45 Dale wrote: 11: Test mit IPv4 DNS Eintrag ok (0.712s) verwende ipv4 Test mit IPv6 DNS Eintrag ok (0.712s) verwende ipv6 6to4 Test mit Dual Stack DNS Eintrag ok

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 09:15, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Now what was I thinking. Oh, wait. I wasn't thinking. There was the problem right there. I hadn't enabled any of the IPv6 stuff in the kernel. Jeeez, what a idiot. I haven't even thought of the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Read the FAQ and Info posted. From the website: If this test fails: it means that the DNS resolver you are using, requires IPv4 to reach the DNS authoritative servers of your favoriate web sites. In the near future, every web site of consequence will remain

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just hoping html5 will improve some things.  May not but doesn't hurt to hope.  I just hope it will eliminate some of the things that are such power or memory hogs now.  It may not at first but eventually Some stuff is

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-08 Thread Mick
On Thursday 09 Jun 2011 02:25:43 Paul Hartman wrote: My wireless router is running DD-WRT (which is a Linux distro). It is running kernel 2.6.34 and has all the ipv6 modules enabled in the kernel. Basically, it is setup by loading the sit module (CONFIG_IPV6_SIT_6RD in kernel config). Then

[gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-07 Thread Dale
Howdy, I got a link to this: http://www.worldipv6day.org/ From there, there is a link to test whether the new IPv6 works on my system and between me and the reat of the world. It appears I am not ready. It complained about the DNS server for the most part. Funny thing is, I use googles

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-07 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Howdy, I got a link to this: http://www.worldipv6day.org/ From there, there is a link to test whether the new IPv6 works on my system and between me and the reat of the world. It appears I am not ready. It complained about the DNS server for the most part. Funny thing is, I

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-07 Thread Adam Carter
Actually, it is enabled already. Here is its complaint list: Test with IPv6 DNS record bad (0.261s) Works for me (asking for v6 record using v4 transport). I dont have v6 transport. /home/adam$ host -t www.google.com www.google.com is an alias for www.l.google.com. www.l.google.com

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm

2011-06-07 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011 03:18:47 Adam Carter wrote: Actually, it is enabled already. Here is its complaint list: Test with IPv6 DNS record bad (0.261s) Works for me (asking for v6 record using v4 transport). I dont have v6 transport. /home/adam$ host -t www.google.com