sassinak’s ramblings

Well that was fairly painless.
Wordpress dumped and migrated to new server without losing anything.

Maybe I’ll actually get into posting things now.

(nah probably not)

Wow 1 year has passed since my last blog post.

Things have been hectic this past year.

So I go on holiday for 3 days (first actual holiday in about 5 years), and as would be expected Murphy strikes on the first working day, and then again on the second day.

What is it about people on the internet?

You setup a free service, using your own time and resources, maintain it, and all they can do is whinge and moan about some imagined slight or issue.

Very little thanks, its as if because they are on the internet it is your “Job” to provide them with a service.

Kinda makes you rethink about running services for others.

Hmmmmm so theres a new version of wordpress in Debian Sid, and this one supports xmlrpc for posting Articles

This Article is coming to you via a lovely little App called gnome-blog (although I don’t actually run the full gnome desktop)

It makes it much easier to post things to your blog, although I can’t see anywhere in it that you can select the category to post into.

But hey you can’t have everything right first time

Time for a new project

Since I will not be allowed more than one Computer in the house (the remainder will have to reside in the “computer room” in the garage), I’ve decided to get myself a XBox for playing DVDs/AVI files and just network it back to a decent size server in the “computer room”.

So now the fun of deciding if I want to attempt installing my own modchip, or paying someone to install it for me.

So I think its about time I get back to writing another blog entry (first one for 2005 even)

What have I been up to.

Well I now have a nice little active bittorrent tracker that I help to maintain. Its ticking along nicely.

Our house sells next friday which means I’ll be buying a new Laptop the week after that. Currently looking at a Dell of some form, not sure quite yet what specs I want.

If you have any suggestions please comment

Ok so I’ve finally got round to fixing wordpress after apt upgraded it but didnt tell me I needed to run the upgrade scripts.

Ok so I’ve decided to setup an ipv6 traceroute web page so I’m now trying to track down some good web based tracerouting scripts.

I’m wanting to setup something that will do both ipv4 and ipv6.

So now back to the searching

See I fortold that something would break.

The AARNET tunnel is now not authenticating, so I’ve decided to drop it and just stick with the HE tunnel. which is working swimmingly

Now on to my next project (which I havnt decided on yet, other than maybe integrating Google Ads into my wordpress

Ok, so I have my HE tunnel working again, and my BGP feed from WIX is still working, and my AARNET tunnel is still working too.

Now I’m just waiting to see what is going to break next

Ok, so its not a good idea to click on Remove Tunnel on the tunnel details page.

Theres no confirmation and no documentation as to what it actually will do. (it completely obliterates the configuration of your tunnel from tunnelbroker, without any confirmation

so I’m now waiting for my IPv6 range to be reassigned (hopefully I’ll get the same range, if not I’ll have to get back in contact with Citylink), and in the mean time I’ve setup an AARNET tunnel (they give you a /48 but have no BGP facilities and have the added latency of having to get into AU for all your traffic)

Pity you cant get TunnelBroker to terminate your AARNET assigned range

Ok so I now have a BGP feed for routes from WIX, but is getting this working, I’ve also managed to stuff something else up.

I now cant route traffic throught the router and out via my TunnelBroker tunnel.

The weird thing is, I can route things through and out the WIX tunnel, and also out the 6to4 tunnel (to wlug) and can also get traffic to and from the router itself to hosts via the TunnelBroker tunnel.

Back to the debugging

Ok so I now have a bgp feed from wix, which gives me a whopping great 10 IPv6 prefixes, its not much but I’m sure it will grow over time

The issue lay in setting the TTL on the tunnel interface, I had it set initially to 5, then tried 64, and then after reading the configuration examples on Hurricane Electrics tunnel details (where they recommend setting it to 255) I increased it up to 255 and voila it all works now.

I’ve also made this change on my HE tunnel and hopefully will be able to get a bgp feed from there too.

So now it all works and I have to go and Wiki my findings

So my next task is to get my IPv6 bgp feed from WIX working properly.

I have the IPv6 tunnel all up and working and can ping the other end, but the BGP session in quagga doesn’t want to work.

Time for some ethereal sniffing me thinks

So I’ve finally got around to getting apache2 running on my server so I can now server ipv6 clients without having to use a patched version of 1.3 from the ipv6 debian repositories.

Only had a few small issues with getting things working, the biggest of which was php4 config not carrying across from apache to apache2, (mysql support not loading) which ment wordpress would work quite happily under 1.3, and return an empty page under 2.0