2012 has been designated the year of IPv6 launch and, to do my part, I have tweaked my infrastructure to ensure full, and future-guaranteed, IPv6 connectivity.

The following domains now support connections via IPv6:

martineve.com
pynchon.net
excursions-journal.org.uk
2bitpie.net

DNS may still be propogating, but all should be 100% within 48 hours.

In order to test this, and to enable permanent IPv6 connectivity to my home, I had to configure a 6-in-4 tunnel to my server box using OpenVPN and the instructions at zagbot. A note to anybody else trying this. The instructions imply that it might work for you without the "sudo /sbin/ip -6 neigh add proxy ${BASERANGE}:${V6NET}::2 dev eth0" line. For me, it did not. Before panicking that things aren't working, try it with that line!

Vint Cerf

Featured image by blacknight under a CC-BY license.

References

This reference list has been generated, in many cases, through an automated process and may therefore contain errors or incomplete metadata. It is provided purely as assistance for finding the items mentioned within this post.

  1. 2bitpie.net personal site <http://www.2bitpie.net>
  2. Excursions: An interdisciplinary journal <http://www.excursions-journal.org.uk>
  3. Martin Eve personal website <http://www.martineve.com>
  4. Neylon, Michele, Michele Neylon, Flickr <http://www.flickr.com/photos/mneylon/>
  5. pynchon.net fan site <http://www.pynchon.net>
  6. ‘World IPv6 Launch’ <http://www.worldipv6launch.org/>