World IPv6 day
Posted on June 6, 2012
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| Ton Kersten
Today is world IPv6 day. So come on you all and make your things IPv6 aware
and working. If Google can do it, you surely can as well ;-).
This site is available through IPv6 a long time already and can be reached at
Join, and that’s an order!
Received my IPv6 T-shirt
Posted on March 2, 2011
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I cleared the Hurricane Electric Sage test way back in August. When you do
clear this test, the HE people promise to send you a nice nerdy IPv6 T-shirt.
It did take them some time, but today it arrived.
Thanks guys.

pa1ton.nl and tonkersten.com in the IPv6 Hall of Fame
Posted on February 14, 2011
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| Ton Kersten
Today I checked my IPv6 connectivity in the
[IPv6 test]{http://ip6.nl/test} and this resulted in

and as a result both domains are now in the “Hall of Fame”
Nothing really special, but nice to have.
My first IPv6 webside visitor
Posted on August 30, 2010
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Last night I had my first genuine visitor with IPv6. It seems it’s a webcrawler from the Erlangen University in Germany.
The IPv6 address is 2001:638:a00:4f::83bc:4e1e and this results in
; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> -x 2001:638:a00:4f::83bc:4e1e ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33203 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;e.1.e.4.c.b.3.8.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.f.4.0.0.0.0.a.0.8.3.6.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa. IN PTR ;; ANSWER SECTION: e.
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Stupid web user
Posted on August 30, 2010
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As blogged before I had my first IPv6 visitor, but of course the first IPv6 type that tried to enter my network could not be far of. Yep and there he/she is.
It’s IP address 2002:4e6d:8112::1 and that does not resolve to something useful, yet, because it’s a 6to4 network address.
Recalculating to an IPv4 address this gives me: 78.109.129.18 and digging that results in
; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> -x 78.
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Also known as pa1ton
Posted on August 25, 2010
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| Ton Kersten
I’ve been running this blog for some time now and for the IPv6 certificate I
needed this site to be IPv6 capable. Therefore I had to run my own nameserver
and stuff like that and so I decided that it would be nice if you could reach
me at http://pa1ton.nl
as well.
Well, you can. Just click here.
Some URL’s need some tweaking, but the first hurdles have been taken.
IPv6 certification level 'Sage' reached
Posted on August 24, 2010
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It took me some time and some tweaking of nameservers, webservers and mailservers, but I finally got it.
I got the Hurricane Electric IPv6 Certification nailed for the “Sage” level. This is the highest level, so only a simple test to go and a daily submission of some logs for maximum points. the maximum points you can get is 1500, so I’m well on my way.
As an extra HE gives you a nice, nerdy T-Shirt, stating that you are an IPv6 guru.
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Deploying IPv6
Posted on August 16, 2010
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| Ton Kersten
It took me some time, but now I have it up and running. My home network runs IPv6 and my server can be reached on an IPv6 address.
Unfortunately I don’t have a native IPv6 address and my provider (UPC/Chello) will not supply one. So I had to use a tunnel broker. After experimenting a bit I got stuck on the Tunnel Broker of Hurricane Electric.
My m0n0wall firewall supports the Tunnelbroker IPv6/IPv4 tunnels and after configuring some firewall rules everything is up and running.
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