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I think this is great. I think more sites should do this. I think I should do this! I'm not a great sysadmin, but I'd like to do what I can to help the ipv6 swi

by mvalle 15y ago

I think this is great. I think more sites should do this. I think I should do this! I'm not a great sysadmin, but I'd like to do what I can to help the ipv6 switch-over. Does anyone have any experience in operating a ipv6-enabled site? What is involved?

rmoriz 15y ago
I'm running nearly all my services in dual stack mode, as my dedicated server provider hetzner.de offers native IPv6 for quite some time. Basic IPv6 is not that hard but when it comes to things like iptables you have to take care: Most iptables frontends can only handle IPv4 or do that as default. You have to take care of the IPv6 yourself or activate it. E.g. Phusion Passenger/nginx installer did not activate the IPv6 module on compile time (not sure if this is still the case) Also I've disabled all RA/autodiscovery functionality which is probably not a good idea to run/listen to on the server side anyway. I can recommend a nice directory of IPv6 ready sites: http://sixy.ch/ http://sixy.ch/
- schmidp 15y ago
  looks like rails.io currently has some ipv6 problems: Fast:~ schmidp$ host rails.io rails.io has address 188.40.182.49 rails.io has IPv6 address 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49 rails.io mail is handled by 10 mail100.fks.de.moriz.net. Fast:~ schmidp$ ping6 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49 PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2001:470:1f0b:1751:685d:197d:eaff:7861 --> 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49 Request timeout for icmp_seq=0 Request timeout for icmp_seq=1 Request timeout for icmp_seq=2 ^C --- 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49 ping6 statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss Fast:~ schmidp$ telnet -6 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49 80 Trying 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49... ^C Fast:~ schmidp$ ping6 www.heise.de PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2001:470:1f0b:1751:685d:197d:eaff:7861 --> 2a02:2e0:3fe:100::7 16 bytes from 2a02:2e0:3fe:100::7, icmp_seq=0 hlim=59 time=28.155 ms 16 bytes from 2a02:2e0:3fe:100::7, icmp_seq=1 hlim=59 time=36.392 ms ^C --- www.heise.de ping6 statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 28.155/32.273/36.392/4.119 ms
  - rmoriz 15y ago
    this service does not exist anymore. try ping6 ruby-muenchen.de instead.

by mvalle 15y ago

rmoriz 15y ago

I'm running nearly all my services in dual stack mode, as my dedicated server provider hetzner.de offers native IPv6 for quite some time. Basic IPv6 is not that hard but when it comes to things like iptables you have to take care: Most iptables frontends can only handle IPv4 or do that as default. You have to take care of the IPv6 yourself or activate it. E.g. Phusion Passenger/nginx installer did not activate the IPv6 module on compile time (not sure if this is still the case) Also I've disabled all RA/autodiscovery functionality which is probably not a good idea to run/listen to on the server side anyway. I can recommend a nice directory of IPv6 ready sites: http://sixy.ch/ http://sixy.ch/

schmidp 15y ago
looks like rails.io currently has some ipv6 problems: Fast:~ schmidp$ host rails.io rails.io has address 188.40.182.49 rails.io has IPv6 address 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49 rails.io mail is handled by 10 mail100.fks.de.moriz.net. Fast:~ schmidp$ ping6 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49 PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2001:470:1f0b:1751:685d:197d:eaff:7861 --> 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49 Request timeout for icmp_seq=0 Request timeout for icmp_seq=1 Request timeout for icmp_seq=2 ^C --- 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49 ping6 statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss Fast:~ schmidp$ telnet -6 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49 80 Trying 2a01:4f8:100:9461::49... ^C Fast:~ schmidp$ ping6 www.heise.de PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2001:470:1f0b:1751:685d:197d:eaff:7861 --> 2a02:2e0:3fe:100::7 16 bytes from 2a02:2e0:3fe:100::7, icmp_seq=0 hlim=59 time=28.155 ms 16 bytes from 2a02:2e0:3fe:100::7, icmp_seq=1 hlim=59 time=36.392 ms ^C --- www.heise.de ping6 statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 28.155/32.273/36.392/4.119 ms
- rmoriz 15y ago
  this service does not exist anymore. try ping6 ruby-muenchen.de instead.