IPv6 with tunnelbroker.net, ChicagoVPS and Ubuntu

I have recently moved my hosting to a couple of VPSes at ChicagoVPS and wanted to use IPv6 tunnelbroker.net ChicagoVPS uses OpenVZ which presents a couple of problems $ ifconfig sit0 sit0: error fetching interface information: Device not found $ sudo modprobe ipv6 FATAL: Module ipv6 not found. It turns out, this is a fairly common problem though OpenVZ is supposed to support IPv6. Luckily, someone made a small userland program tb-tun, which “tunnels” IPv6 tunnels through a TUN/TAP device....

January 6, 2013 · 3 min · alj

www.nowhere.dk is now IPv6 enabled

Just a quick note to let you know that www.nowhere.dk is now accessible through IPv6 $ host -t AAAA www.nowhere.dk www.nowhere.dk CNAME coredump.nowhere.dk coredump.nowhere.dk AAAA 2001:2010:0:2:0:0:0:DEAD The only thing I had to do was to enable IPv6 in Lighttpd, enable IPv6 in ufw (done in /etc/default/ufw) and then re-add any rules to ufw that affect IPv6 (like web and ssh). The last part is crucial and not very well documented....

March 13, 2010 · 1 min · alj