Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
Recently I wrote about getting my IPv6 tunnel setup working properly again after a while of it not working very well (or not at all). Since my ISP doesn't yet (to my knowledge) provide native IPv6 connectivity to regular consumers, I tunnel IPv6 via Hurricane Electric, which on the whole works pretty well.
Another fantastic thing that my ISP does is throttle YouTube (and presumably other) traffic…
One last post before I hit the sack... There's this thing called IPv6. You need it.
By and large most companies involved in Internet things are doing very little to promote IPv6 uptake but Hurricane Electric are one of few that are doing some cool things. They offer free IPv6 tunneling (and have a lot of endpoints globally), as well as a pretty awesome certification course. OK, it's not "official…