Dutch Weather Forecast via IPv6

Found via http://sixy.ch/ (a site with an overview of IPv6 enabled sites): the Dutch weather forecast of the KNMI is available via IPv6: www6.knmi.nl .

Name: www6.knmi.nl
Addresses: 2001:610:178:ec::96
145.23.253.254

Practice your German ... over IPv6 ;-)

The great German magazine C'T has put their website on IPv6, via a separate URL:

http://www.six.heise.de/ct/

http://www.six.heise.de/

So you can now practice your German (reading) over IPv6. ;-)

North American IPv6 Task Force: "At least half of U.S. CIOs have IPv6 on their networks"

Yet another interesting quote:

"At least half of U.S. CIOs have IPv6 on their networks that they don't know about, but the hackers do," says Yanick Pouffary, technology director for the North American IPv6 Task Force and an HP Distinguished Technologist. "You can't ignore IPv6. You need to take the minimum steps to secure your perimeter. You need firewalls that understand IPv4 and IPv6. You need network management tools that understand IPv4 and IPv6."

So, at least half of the U.S. companies have IPv6 enabled networks? I guess that's good news! Until now, I heard that too little US companies were doing IPv6, and it would take billions of dollars to get IPv6. Now we learn IPv6 is already there. Great!

So, 40 years later, we can all say "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind".


More interesting (or confusing?) Pv6 stuff here:

http://edge.networkworld.com/news/2009/071309-rogue-ipv6.html
http://www.itworld.com/networking/71015/five-biggest-ipv6-based-threats-facing-cios

Juniper: "look for IPv6 traffic and drop it"

Interesting quote from Juniper:

"What customers need to do within their intrusion-prevention systems or within their firewalls is to explicitly look for IPv6 traffic and drop it,'' says Tim LeMaster, director of systems engineering for Juniper's Federal group.

So Juniper is advising to drop IPv6 traffic?! Interesting point of view from a network hardware vendor; I would expect such a vendor to say "You need IPv6. Buy my stuff that does IPv6".

Oh, wait: maybe the reasoning is this: "You need to drop IPv6. Buy my stuff that can drop IPv6.".


See more "IPv6 is dangerous" stuff here:

http://edge.networkworld.com/news/2009/071309-rogue-ipv6.html
http://www.itworld.com/networking/71015/five-biggest-ipv6-based-threats-facing-cios

Dutch ISP Introweb does IPv6 (-only)

The Dutch ISP "Introweb" is now offering IPv6 over ADSL. See the Dutch information here: http://www.introweb.nl/producten/categorien/internet_toegang/economy_adsl/ipv6_adsl.shtml

It's good to see that an ISP actually offers IPv6 instead of talking about what others should do in the RSN future. ;-(

A few things are especially noteworthy:

• It's a IPv6-only connection. So you need a separate plain IPv4 connection. I think this will mislead IPv6 newcomers that IPv6 needs different hardware, connections, etc.
• It only costs 6 Euro per month.
• Only available for a limited number of customers
• Using a Cisco 8xx DSL router

Furthermore: Introweb has it's own website www.introweb.nl on IPv6 too: http://[2001:1690:2:4::1:3]/

Kudo's to Introweb for doing IPv6!

D-Link DIR-825 home router does IPv6

D-Link has introduced a wireless router named DIR-825 which seems to do IPv6. D-Link itself provides very little information about the IPv6. I only found some information in this pdf ftp://ftp.dlink.eu/datasheets/DIR-825.pdf

IPV6 READY
This router carries both the silver and gold IPv6 Ready logos, signifying that it not only supports the IPv6 protocol, but is also compatible with IPv6 equipment from other manufacturers. It allows you to move to a 128-bit addressing system and directly connect to anybody in the world using your unique IP address. Using a dual-stack architecture, this router can handle routing for both IPv4 and IPv6 networks at the same time, so you can be assured that your equipment is forward and backward compatible

That information is not very useful.

The German magazine C'T provides a bit more information: IPv6 over PPPoE or DHCPv6 for native IPv6 to the ISP. If that does not work, the DIR-825 will use 6to4 or 6in4 tunnels.

The price is a quite high: 160 Euro.

Help needed: Remote Desktop from Ubuntu to Windows Vista Home Premium over IPv6

I'm looking for help:

I want to use my Ubuntu Linux to access the desktop of a Windows Vista Home Premium over IPv6.

I tried to use rdesktop, but that did not work (even not over IPv4 on a LAN). Reason: Home Premium cannot "receive" Remote Desktop sessions. See screendump: there's only a 'Remote Assistance' option, which is not Remote Desktop. (One of those reasons I don't like Windows.)
There seems to be a hack for this (see http://portal.tonychan.org/Default.aspx?tabid=58&EntryID=123), but that resulted in errors. I could try to solve that by de-activating UAC, but it all feels a bit ugly.

I then tried VNC, but all VNC version (original VNC, ultraVNC, tightVNC) seem to have small or big problems with Windows Vista.


So: tips welcome!



PS: Related, but no solution: Tiberius was able to 'Remote Desktop' to Windows XP! This was based on some ipv6 to ipv4 tunnel trick.