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…
I've written a couple of times in the past about my use of IPv6 at home. Sadly the state of native IPv6 for consumers is not so much better, so I'm left without native connectivity to my router (to be fair, I have assumed nothing has changed but it is possible Deutsche Telekom is now offering it without making any fanfare about its arrival).
So I still have the humble Hurricane Electric tunnel…
I'm a big proponent of getting IPv6 out there, but not everyone shares this opinion. A lot of people are happy to stick with IPv4 and all of the horrid NATing nightmares this introduces despite there being such big wins when using IPv6. Some issues it does introduce though need to be dealt with:
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…