Continuation

Well,

the time has come, I will be leaving my current hosting provider www.1and1.com . Why ? I simply see no value in using hosting providers. I am my self working in that industry and that means I know how it works and stuff and because I have my own servers serving my email, vpns, dns for long time now I am just cutting off some unnecessary spendings.

First, my yllq.net domain got transfered to GKG – why ? Cost and they allow IPv6 glue, as well as they are reasonably technical towards customers.

Next it will be firmahrp.com and then mobygeek.net and blackue.net as I still didn’t decided which server to use for WWW hosting.

Just certified my self in IPv6 with www.he.net

Arena Live is sooo much better than Quake Live

It’s amazing , a while back we heard about Quake Live.  A game, a Quake which you can play for free online. It had a few glitches , hanged a few times, works only on Windows. Still it was some fun.

Now, as we know, id software has opensources the Q3 engine. So why not create an Open Source equivalent to proprietary Quake Live.

I think, this is how Arena Live came to life.

Arena Live is free, open source and very much playable( even if they say it’s in Alpha stage). What really got my attention is the main platform for it’s development.  Not Windows, not Mac (they will come later), but Linux is the first one with a working client available.

Second thing what surprised me is that it’s IPv6 enabled – It’s the first game I ever played over IPv6.

All you oldschool Quake fans, join the game and we may even have a match.

Last time I wrote about experimenting with forcing www.google.com to run over IPv6.

After some use I’ve notice that it’s breaking a lot of stuff, including YouTube and feeds from ArsTechnica.

I’ve looked a bit dipper and it looks like only www.l.google.com has IPv6 working. To make things easier, I’ve dropped whole google.com and google.co.uk zones. Instead I’ve created a zone for www.l.google.com only.

zone "www.l.google.com" IN {
type master;
file "pri/db.www.l.google.com";
notify no;
};

Which contains :

$TTL    86400
@       IN      SOA     ns1.yllq.net. seeder.mobygeek.net. (
2009040101      ; Serial
604800         ; Refresh
86400         ; Retry
2419200         ; Expire
86400 )       ; Negative Cache TTL
;
@    IN    NS    ns1.yllq.net.
@     IN AAAA 2001:4860:a003::68
*     IN AAAA 2001:4860:a003::68

Just to make sure

All what can, runs via IPv6 , everything else is going via IPv4.

As some of the people know Google has an IPv6 only site but it’s kinda limited. They also claim that their www.google.com can be supported over IPv6 , it’s just that they have a scheme for ISPs to enroll to get AAAA records released to their DNS servers.

Now when you are using your own DNS server you are in disadvantage.

So to have *.google.com and *.google.co.uk I have created zones on my server using IPv6 address from ipv6.google.com . I have not included IPv4 address as well … I don’t need it, I’m full IPv6 here.

You may also consider adding zone for your language/national google domain like google.pl for polish.

Full article has configuration snippets used by me with my BIND server . Click More…

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I’m an IPv6 user. I also, from time to time, use BitTorrent.

I was really surprised when I was downloading something recently. Surprise came from the number of IPv6 peers which I was connected to. About 10 of them IIRC. It’s great to see that I’m not the only one who has IPv6 enabled and working well.

Hope there will be more of us, it’s some much easier which out stupid NAT between people.

A glimpse of VirtualBox and Sun Unified Storage Simulator.

SUSS looks good, Only problem I had was with IPv6, donno if it was due to VBox or SUSS but when I’ve set a static IPv6 it was crashing the interface. Other than that, good stuff, will need to test both products more.

I have started evaluating the Cherokee Web Server. Have it installed on Gentoo. Using latest version from Ayron.

So far, I have found

• that it gives a nice secure web interface ( via the cherokee-admin ),
• has a bug with Security setting when using IPv6 addresses ( I’ve sent feedback on that ).

I am in need of replacing a router with a more feature reach model. So I am going to Cisco website, looking for router with all my required features ( wifi, adsl, ipv6 ) and I have found that 857W will do it and it’s not to pricey.

Here is a features table which I found there :

I have bought one unit and when trying to configure ipv6 …. it is missing. I say OK, maybe on this IOS image.

Going back to Cisco website, using Software Advisor I can not find any IOS for 850 series which contains IPv6.

So, I have opened an issue with TAC. And guy says something “yeah, 850s don’t have IPv6″.

CISCO give me my IPv6 on router which I bought!!!!!! Or give me a new one which does it!

Cisco liars !!!

This is busy period, I am working my ass out and I have not much time for my self.

At least I have manage to get a break mid July and I have uploaded some pictures to my, today fixed, gallery

When I was on holiday, my broadband supplier ( Black Cat Networks ) has been taken over and my superb service will be disrupted as a new company will not provide IPv6 which I rely on. I have subscribed with with AAISP they have strange bandwidth limits … 8-18 workdays … but during that time I am at the office, so not a big problem.