oliland on The Star Wars Route: Do a traceroute to 216.81.59.173

Comment on The Star Wars Route: Do a traceroute to 216.81.59.173

Don't forget to watch Episode IV in the terminal!

    $ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

When I was younger I went out of my way to get a V6 address just to watch it in color ;)

schmidp 13y

No color for me:

  Well, the IPv6 version is exactly the same as the IPv4 one.

       The difference is in the visitors...                              
                                                
       Je bent een Stoere Bikkel, aka You Rock.

loeg 13y

Quoth oliland: > When I was younger I went out of my way to get a V6 address just to watch it in color ;)

Note the semi-colon ;-).

IgorPartola 13y

apt-get install miredo

That works as a last resort. Or sign up for SixXS using an AYIYA tunnel, apt-get install aiccu and enjoy.

dfc 13y

Miredo? AYIYA? Yuck.

Just use HE.net's tunnelbroker and set up a 6in4 tunnel[1]. FWIW there was no color for me either when I connected via ipv6. Just the same message about different visitors as printed above. Just to be sure ran:

  telnet -6 towel.blinkenlights.nl

[1] http://www.shorewall.net/6to4.htm#SixInFour

IgorPartola 13y

Miredo/teredo is yuck indeed. ATIYA is not bad, I am not sure why you turn your nose to it. Practically it just adds 8 bytes to the headers compared to 6in4 yet is a lot easier to set up. Specifically, if you do not have a router that you control and that can do IPv6 and ip6tables, AYIYA is the easiest to set up and have a static address. I would not set it up for a server but for a small LAN it will be no different than 6in4.

dfc 13y

I understand what you are saying, AYIYA is not as bad as miredo. But lets face it:

Router That You Control + IPv6 + ip6tables = Any Linux Box

It is even easier with:

Router That You Control + IPv6 + ip6tables + shorewall6 = Any Linux Box

Configuring the linux box is essentially as easy as appending the following to /etc/network/interfaces:

  ### IPv6

  auto he-ipv6

  iface he-ipv6 inet6 v4tunnel
        address  1234:987:1234:743::2
        netmask  64
        endpoint 209.51.161.14
        ttl      255
        gateway 1234:987:1234:743::1
        post-up sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
  
  
  iface eth1 inet6 static
        address 1234:567:8901:1::1
        netmask 64

Spend five minutes with /etc/shorewall6/shorewall6.conf and you are done. Granted my mom is not going to do that but for anyone on HN that should be a walk in the park.

vy8vWJlco 13y

Don't forget gogoc.

charlesju 13y

That's so awesome. I can't believe this exists. How did they make it?

chrismarlow9 13y

From the creator:

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/asciimation/ascii_faq.html

From his page he says he just ported what this guy did to telnet.

Tekker 13y

It should be noted that the Star Wars asciimation guy also did the thoroughly awesome Jet Powered Beer Cooler using a jet engine built in his shed (in NZ) to chill his guinness to a respectable 2c, of which I am in awe.

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/index.html

Wintamute 13y

Oh my God he made it in a simple text editor using copy and paste. Mind blown.

InclinedPlane 13y

And then read this too (if you wonder about the origin of the domain name): http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/blinkenlights.html

sebkomianos 13y

Related project from Berlin: http://blinkenlights.net/

gocard 13y

Han does shoot first!

Comments