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What's the best way to test and deploy sites hosted on IPv6 addresses? My office connection only has IPv4, and I'm loath to set things up blind. (30 seconds o

What's the best way to test and deploy sites hosted on IPv6 addresses? My office connection only has IPv4, and I'm loath to set things up blind. (30 seconds of Googling isn't helping, I keep ending up on sites that test whether my connection is IPv6 or not)

dan1234 11y ago
For testing, you can setup a free IPv6 tunnel with Hurricane Electric's tunnel broker service. https://www.tunnelbroker.net https://www.tunnelbroker.net
marios 11y ago
tunnelbroker.net, operated by Hurricane Eletric (he.net) ^Register, setup IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling. They can give you a whole /48 if you want to play with your network. Now considering you want to test other sites, all you need is IPv6 connectivity, so the default settings they provide are enough. I recall they had decent docs on how to set things up for all major OSes. There were a few gotchas : * you need to make sure "ip proto 41" is not filtered by your firewall, or you won't be able to setup the tunnel * in the web interface, make sure you provide your public IPv4, and not your NATed address.
simoncion 11y ago
In addition to explicit tunnels, you can use a Teredo tunnel. [0] Miredo is the Teredo implementation that everyone uses on Linux. The advantage is that Teredo automagically configures itself. Some of the disadvantages are that it can be really slow or otherwise unreliable, and kinda slow to configure. Having said that, I run Miredo wherever I go so that I can reach my v6 hosts back home, regardless of whether or not the network I'm currently attached to has v6 service. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teredo_tunneling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teredo_tunneling
revellion 11y ago
https://www.sixxs.net/tools/gateway/ https://www.sixxs.net/tools/gateway/ A good tip, they provide an IPv6-to-IPv4 Web-proxy. That you can use to test your v6only site from a v4-host. Given that you have a DNS record for your site ofcourse. And just go http://yoursite.tld.sixxs.org http://yoursite.tld.sixxs.org :)

dan1234 11y ago

For testing, you can setup a free IPv6 tunnel with Hurricane Electric's tunnel broker service. https://www.tunnelbroker.net https://www.tunnelbroker.net

marios 11y ago

tunnelbroker.net, operated by Hurricane Eletric (he.net) ^Register, setup IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling. They can give you a whole /48 if you want to play with your network. Now considering you want to test other sites, all you need is IPv6 connectivity, so the default settings they provide are enough. I recall they had decent docs on how to set things up for all major OSes. There were a few gotchas : * you need to make sure "ip proto 41" is not filtered by your firewall, or you won't be able to setup the tunnel * in the web interface, make sure you provide your public IPv4, and not your NATed address.

simoncion 11y ago

In addition to explicit tunnels, you can use a Teredo tunnel. [0] Miredo is the Teredo implementation that everyone uses on Linux. The advantage is that Teredo automagically configures itself. Some of the disadvantages are that it can be really slow or otherwise unreliable, and kinda slow to configure. Having said that, I run Miredo wherever I go so that I can reach my v6 hosts back home, regardless of whether or not the network I'm currently attached to has v6 service. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teredo_tunneling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teredo_tunneling

revellion 11y ago

https://www.sixxs.net/tools/gateway/ https://www.sixxs.net/tools/gateway/ A good tip, they provide an IPv6-to-IPv4 Web-proxy. That you can use to test your v6only site from a v4-host. Given that you have a DNS record for your site ofcourse. And just go http://yoursite.tld.sixxs.org http://yoursite.tld.sixxs.org :)