Michael Fleming’s Networked Mind

Folks,

It seems my IPv6 routed range and tunnel have been offline for the best part of the week. I’ve tried multiple times to rebuild it and that part of it’s fine - but once it hits the other end of the tunnel, no route to any host.

So it looks like my tunnel broker, he.net (Hurricane Electric) aren’t particularly on the ball in this regard and I’m not expecting much.

I’ve tried singing up with sixxs.net but they haven’t got a presence point I can use (their policy is to reject latencies > 100ms, which means pretty much everywhere outside of Australia - the link via NZ is the killer, even the closest PoP is 250ms+.

I can go with AARNet, but have tried before and it’s a bit ugly. It’s a standby if I really, really want it I guess.
Mind, there’s very little traffic from the wildside coming in over IPv6, so I’ll likely just shut it all down and stick with classic IPv4. It’s been an interesting experience but the educational benefit and cool factor have now worn off - so I’ll likely take the tunnel down for good and remove the AAAA records soon enough.

To those IPv6 users - sorry folks.

No monkeys though, which is a good thing.

I’ve had IPv6 up and running for a little while now, however only today have I got the necessary DNS records in place - thanks Atul!
Ergo, all of you IPv6-enabled peeps should now see me from 2001::-land (it’s full of colons! :-))

[mfleming@qbert ~]$ dig -t ANY +short www.enlartenment.com203.8.189.1002001:470:1f01:2800:250:8dff:fe54:9197

I am installing the Joomla CMS for some dear friends of mine. It’s extremely cool and will save a lot of time coding (now to be spent on more productive things such as content) plus the templates are tres cool. I can still customise it and add modules with a little XML + PHP + HTML, which beats having to write database apps from scratch.

I’ve also reviewed my SELinux setup - turns out while what I have works, but isn’t ideal - I’m making audit exceptions for stuff that can be handled with the correct type context (public_content_*_t et. al, mostly the rw variety for hosted sites needing FTP access)

After some fiddling, especially regards to web + FTP + rsync, my local.te is much cleaner

Now to see if tonight’s rsync with Planetmirror (Fedora updates) explodes

[mfleming@defender mfleming]$ traceroute6 ipv6.he.net
traceroute to ipv6.he.net (3ffe:81d0:ffff::3), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 qbert.enlartenment.com (2001:470:1f01:2800:250:8dff:fe54:9197) 4.244 ms 0.083 ms 0.086 ms
2 tunnel-local.enlartenment.com (2001:470:1f01:ffff::1518) 204.009 ms 214.444 ms 220.150 ms
3 tunnel-remote.enlartenment.com (2001:470:1f01:ffff::1518)(H!) 3225.042 ms * *

Whoops!

Hurry up Hurricane Electric! You don’t want to fall off the edge of the (IPv6) world now!

(Note: I am a happy user of their tunnel service. Now I just need a DNS service that will do AAAA/A6 records cheap :-))