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title: I've gone to IPv6

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<p>2012 has been designated <a href="http://www.worldipv6launch.org/">the year of IPv6 launch</a> and, to do my part, I have tweaked my infrastructure to ensure full, and future-guaranteed, IPv6 connectivity.</p>
<p>The following domains now support connections via IPv6:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.martineve.com">martineve.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.pynchon.net">pynchon.net</a><br />
<a href="http://www.excursions-journal.org.uk">excursions-journal.org.uk</a><br />
<a href="http://www.2bitpie.net">2bitpie.net</a></p>
<p>DNS may still be propogating, but all should be 100% within 48 hours.</p>
<p>In order to test this, and to enable permanent IPv6 connectivity to my home, I had to configure a 6-in-4 tunnel to my server box using OpenVPN and <a href="https://www.zagbot.com/openvpn_ipv6_tunnel.html">the instructions at zagbot</a>. A note to anybody else trying this. The instructions imply that it might work for you without the "sudo /sbin/ip -6 neigh add proxy ${BASERANGE}:${V6NET}::2 dev eth0" line. For me, it did not. Before panicking that things aren't working, try it with that line!</p>
<p><img src="https://www.martineve.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/vint-1024x1024.jpg" alt="Vint Cerf" title="Vint Cerf" style="width:750px;" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-1866" /></p>
<p><i>Featured image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mneylon/">blacknight</a> under a CC-BY license.</i></p>