Zen and The Art of IPv6 Administration
So I've been getting all interested in IPv6 lately...
...Not that being interested is likely to actually help anyone work the bloody thing out. All the articles and documentation and HOWTO guides are so incredibly complicated that it's no wonder noone actually uses it yet.
Anyhow, my "ISP" (Which is a legal company, but from an IP point of view amounts to a guy sharing his DSL line) naturally doesn't provide any kind of IPv6 connectivity, so I've signed up for SixXS who provide a magical IPv6-over-a-NAT-traversable-tunnel service, so if I get approved they'll give me an address or two and I can really start playing with it.
Apparently the approval isn't quite so simple though.. Reportedly when these tunnel services first started up, most people were using them just to get BigSchlong!BigSchlong@i.done.ur.mum.hehe.example.com idents for IRC, so the approval process has become rather strict. You have to sign up for a real RIPE account and everything first, and you can't be using an email address that isn't from a real ISP.
Well my "real" ISP doesn't actually give out email addresses, surprise surprise! .. I gave them my junkheap address though, I hope that'll do .. The domain's 6 years old so it doesn't look too fly-by-night. :)
Soon I'm gonna write a little primer thang for anybody interested in IPv6, on how to set up a private LAN in the traditional 192.168.0.0/24 style. The theory behind IPv6 was that this kind of thing would become unnecessary and eventually disappear, but of course with the lack of actual connectivity and address assignment going on, a real IPv6 solution is still a long way off.