Virtual Box: "Network Bridge Adapter"

If your VirtualBox host system has IPv6 via RADV or DHCPv6, and you want the guest to have that IPv6 too, you should select Network -> Network Bridge Adapter. That way your VirtualBox guest is 'directly' connected to your LAN, without NAT.

IPv6 solution for blocked PirateBay

Dutch ISPs Xs4all and Ziggo have been court ordered to block access to The Pirate Bay. I don't know how the blocking will be done (based on DNS lookups or IPv4 address), but I think there might be an easy way around this block: just use http://thepiratebay.org.ipv6.sixxs.org/ , which is an IPv6-ed, proxyfied access to TPB. You need to have IPv6 access to be able to access this URL. Luckily, Xs4all provides IPv6 to its customers.

So: problem solved?

C:\>nslookup thepiratebay.org.ipv6.sixxs.org

Server:  router.home

Address:  192.168.1.254

Non-authoritative answer:

Name:    ipv6.nginx.sixxs.net

Addresses:  2001:838:2:1::30:67

          2001:838:2:1:2a0:24ff:feab:3b53

          2001:960:800::2

          2001:1af8:4050::2

          2620:0:6b0:a:250:56ff:fe99:78f7

Aliases:  thepiratebay.org.ipv6.sixxs.org

C:\>

Update: See http://ipv6-or-no-ipv6.blogspot.nl/2012/06/blocked-piratebay-and-ipv6.html on this blog for other solutions for a blocked TPB

Dutch ISP Telfort conducting IPv6 pre-pilot based on 6RD

The Dutch ISP Telfort (www.telfort.nl) has started a IPv6 pre-pilot based on 6RD. 6RD stands for "IPv6 Rapid Deployment", and is an adapted 6to4 tunnel technology: in 6RD, the tunnel end point is defined, and is owned by the tunnel provider or ISP. This results in a more predictable and thus reliable IPv6 tunnel service. 6RD is used by the French ISP "Free", and others. More details on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_rapid_deployment

Telfort offers the IPv6 service on two modems: the ZyXEL 2601HN-F1 (with BLV.7 test firmware) and the 2812HNU-F1 with TUE.2 firmware.

After applying for the pre-pilot, the user sets up the IPv6 service in his modem in two steps:

WAN-side: select IPv6, and then 6to4 tunneling with 6RD enabled:

Then IPv6 is actived on the LAN side:

The IPv6 address scheme is like this: 2a00:cd8:::/64. An example Telfort IPv6 address is thus 2a00:cd8:c3f1:66e2::1


... to be continued ...