[tech] IPv6 happier

[Grahame Bowland]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 12:19:44AM +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> We discovered an extra spurious IPv6 route for UCC that was making
> all sorts of things unhappy. This has been removed, and IPv6 at UCC
> has since picked up. I've created the zones
> ipv6.ucc.{asn,gu{ild,}.uwa.edu}.au to contain only IPv6 addresses,
> to avoid issues with services that don't bind on v6.
> 
> The zone file is currently being updated by hand, as I couldn't find
> the urge to hack up zonemake.py. The machines that I've confirmed
> have working[1] and firewalled v6 access are:
> 
>  * mussel
>  * martello
>  * manbo
>  * madako (not for general members)
>  * mooneye (not for general members)
>  * flying (not for general members, but should forward 11b wireless
>    clients happily - haven't confirmed that yet).
> 
> This does mean that for people that have no free connectivity to UCC
> because UCC WAIX[2] is down, you can now connect over IPv6 from
> anywhere in the world for free and without tunneling![3]
> 
> Bernard.
> 
> [1] They work at the moment. They should work after a reboot. I
>     haven't tested this.
> [2] You know what I mean.
> [3] Well, UCS does that for us. Or you might decide to do your own
>     tunnel to get at the IPv4 internet over IPv6...

All credit to Bernard for spotting the dumb routing error causing the
problem :)

I'm going to be getting UWA onto a native IPv6 link that comes over the
same connection as our IPv4, rather than the slow and kind of fragile
tunnel over IPv4 to Sydney. I'll chase this up soon :-)