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    From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to Paul Hayton on Sat Jun 24 22:25:39 2023

    *** Answering a msg posted in area FN_SYSOP (International Fido Sysops).

    Hello Paul,

    On Saturday June 24 2023 12:26, you wrote to me:

    On 23 Jun 2023 at 10:30a, Michiel van der Vlist pondered and said...

    Indeed no IPv6 for now.

    Yep

    No change, so I will flag you as "6DWN" in the list for now.

    I see you were running a he.net tunnel. Does it mean you will
    have native IPv6? Or is there a problem getting the tunnel back
    up?

    I may end up with a mix of both, I think I may get some native
    allocation with my new ISP in the coming weeks. Not sure... but also looking to have a tunnel running again as I'd like to make use of that too. My hope is it will be possible to do both without too much issue.

    Interesting. With a he.net tunnel you have a fixed IPv6 prefix and that has its advantages. With native IPv6 you may have a (semi) dynamic prefix. Your milage may vary. Other than that I find native IPv6 much preferable ove a tunnel. He,net offers a fantastic service for a very attractive price, but a tunnel just can not match native IPv6. At least that is my experience.

    Please keep us posted.


    Cheers, Michiel

    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20170303
    * Origin: he.net certified sage (2:280/5555)
  • From Paul Hayton@3:770/100 to Michiel van der Vlist on Sun Jun 25 13:55:17 2023
    On 24 Jun 2023 at 10:25p, Michiel van der Vlist pondered and said...

    Indeed no IPv6 for now.
    Yep

    No change, so I will flag you as "6DWN" in the list for now.

    I've been working on the he.net tunnel today and should have updated AAAA records for agency.bbs.nz in place in the coming day. You could also try agency.fsxnet.nz which should be working now.

    I may end up with a mix of both, I think I may get some native allocation with my new ISP in the coming weeks. Not sure... but also looking to have a tunnel running again as I'd like to make use of tha too. My hope is it will be possible to do both without too much issue

    Interesting. With a he.net tunnel you have a fixed IPv6 prefix and that has its advantages. With native IPv6 you may have a (semi) dynamic
    prefix. Your milage may vary. Other than that I find native IPv6 much preferable ove a tunnel. He,net offers a fantastic service for a very attractive price, but a tunnel just can not match native IPv6. At least that is my experience.

    I'm hoping my new ISP will provide a static IPc6 range that I can use. But for now I'm just about sorted on the revised he.net tunnel.

    Please keep us posted.

    Yep will do, have a poke at my domain name in the coming 24 hours and let me know how you get on.

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (3:770/100)
  • From Paul Hayton@3:770/100 to Michiel van der Vlist on Sun Jun 25 14:54:35 2023
    On 24 Jun 2023 at 10:25p, Michiel van der Vlist pondered and said...

    Please keep us posted.

    he.net tunnel should be back up, I have added DNS records for the new address.

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (3:770/100)
  • From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to Paul Hayton on Sun Jun 25 10:11:13 2023
    Hello Paul,

    On Sunday June 25 2023 14:54, you wrote to me:

    he.net tunnel should be back up, I have added DNS records for the new address.

    Check!

    + 10:06 [2688] call to 3:770/100@fidonet
    10:06 [2688] trying agency.bbs.nz [2001:470:d:3a4::200]:24555...
    10:06 [2688] connected
    + 10:06 [2688] outgoing session with agency.bbs.nz:24555 [2001:470:d:3a4::200] - 10:06 [2688] OPT CRAM-MD5-1ce5c941a3cd496137354c98f114d28c
    + 10:06 [2688] Remote requests MD mode
    - 10:06 [2688] SYS Agency BBS
    - 10:06 [2688] LOC Dunedin, New Zealand
    - 10:06 [2688] ZYZ Avon
    - 10:06 [2688] TIME Sun, 25 Jun 2023 20:06:43 +1200
    - 10:06 [2688] VER Mystic/1.12A48 binkp/1.0


    + 10:06 [1944] call to 3:770/1@fidonet
    10:06 [1944] trying agency.bbs.nz [2001:470:d:3a4::200]...
    10:06 [1944] connected
    + 10:06 [1944] outgoing session with agency.bbs.nz:24554 [2001:470:d:3a4::200] - 10:06 [1944] OPT CRAM-MD5-77496d11d0a49636eb80b533087f3fee
    + 10:06 [1944] Remote requests MD mode
    - 10:06 [1944] SYS Agency + Risa HUB
    - 10:06 [1944] ZYZ Paul Hayton
    - 10:06 [1944] LOC Dunedin, New Zealand
    - 10:06 [1944] NDL 115200,TCP,CM,MO,IBN,BINKP,PING,IPv6
    - 10:06 [1944] TIME Sun, 25 Jun 2023 20:06:49 +1200
    - 10:06 [1944] VER binkd/1.1a-115/Linux binkp/1.1


    Cheers, Michiel

    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20170303
    * Origin: he.net certified sage (2:280/5555)
  • From Nigel Reed@1:124/5016 to Michiel van der Vlist on Sun Jun 25 12:07:27 2023
    Re: Agency BBS / Agency HUB
    By: Michiel van der Vlist to Nigel Reed on Sun Jun 25 2023 14:24:52

    Odd. I suspect this is not really a problem with IPv6 but a problem with the he.net tunnel. A well known issue with he.net tunnels is that geolocation does not work properly and that can mess up things.

    Yeah, I was referring to HE tunnelbroker.

    The "proper" fix would be that your ISP gives you native IPv6. It has been 11 years since World IPv6 Launch, ISPs that still only offer IPv4 deserve to go belly up. Are you stuck with them?

    Unfortunately, yes. Frontier are the only fiber provider in the city. The only other option would be 5G wireless and you're not going to get the same speeds, plus I don't think it's fully deployed in the Dallas suburbs yet. I'm pretty stuck.
    --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux
    * Origin: End Of The Line BBS - endofthelinebbs.com (1:124/5016)
  • From Paul Hayton@3:770/100 to Michiel van der Vlist on Mon Jun 26 12:59:48 2023
    On 25 Jun 2023 at 02:07p, Michiel van der Vlist pondered and said...

    I am a bit puzzled. Whenyou have a working conection from you new ISP,
    and obviously you do, I would think that you already know if you have an IPv6 range from them.

    ISP does not issue IPv6 on day one, I'm told it's sorted in the first week. So yeah, just waiting to hear

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (3:770/100)
  • From Alexey Vissarionov@2:5020/545 to Nigel Reed on Mon Jun 26 11:14:44 2023
    Good ${greeting_time}, Nigel!

    25 Jun 2023 02:08:32, you wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

    I couldn't find a way to do so with the Android phones. I ended up
    turning my home ipv6 tunnel off until its fixed.

    Setting up an additional IPv4-only WiFi AP (in a separate VLAN) appears to be much more wise idea.


    --
    Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin
    gremlin.ru!gremlin; +vii-cmiii-ccxxix-lxxix-xlii

    ... :wq!
    --- /bin/vi
    * Origin: ::1 (2:5020/545)