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Don't forget to watch Episode IV in the terminal!

    $ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

When I was younger I went out of my way to get a V6 address just to watch it in color ;)

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No color for me:

  Well, the IPv6 version is exactly the same as the IPv4 one.

       The difference is in the visitors...                              
                                                
       Je bent een Stoere Bikkel, aka You Rock.

Quoth oliland: > When I was younger I went out of my way to get a V6 address just to watch it in color ;)

Note the semi-colon ;-).

apt-get install miredo

That works as a last resort. Or sign up for SixXS using an AYIYA tunnel, apt-get install aiccu and enjoy.

Miredo? AYIYA? Yuck.

Just use HE.net's tunnelbroker and set up a 6in4 tunnel[1]. FWIW there was no color for me either when I connected via ipv6. Just the same message about different visitors as printed above. Just to be sure ran:

  telnet -6 towel.blinkenlights.nl

[1] http://www.shorewall.net/6to4.htm#SixInFour

Miredo/teredo is yuck indeed. ATIYA is not bad, I am not sure why you turn your nose to it. Practically it just adds 8 bytes to the headers compared to 6in4 yet is a lot easier to set up. Specifically, if you do not have a router that you control and that can do IPv6 and ip6tables, AYIYA is the easiest to set up and have a static address. I would not set it up for a server but for a small LAN it will be no different than 6in4.

I understand what you are saying, AYIYA is not as bad as miredo. But lets face it:

Router That You Control + IPv6 + ip6tables = Any Linux Box

It is even easier with:

Router That You Control + IPv6 + ip6tables + shorewall6 = Any Linux Box

Configuring the linux box is essentially as easy as appending the following to /etc/network/interfaces:

  ### IPv6

  auto he-ipv6

  iface he-ipv6 inet6 v4tunnel
        address  1234:987:1234:743::2
        netmask  64
        endpoint 209.51.161.14
        ttl      255
        gateway 1234:987:1234:743::1
        post-up sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
  
  
  iface eth1 inet6 static
        address 1234:567:8901:1::1
        netmask 64

Spend five minutes with /etc/shorewall6/shorewall6.conf and you are done. Granted my mom is not going to do that but for anyone on HN that should be a walk in the park.

Don't forget gogoc.

That's so awesome. I can't believe this exists. How did they make it?

From the creator:

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/asciimation/ascii_faq.html

From his page he says he just ported what this guy did to telnet.

It should be noted that the Star Wars asciimation guy also did the thoroughly awesome Jet Powered Beer Cooler using a jet engine built in his shed (in NZ) to chill his guinness to a respectable 2c, of which I am in awe.

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/index.html

Oh my God he made it in a simple text editor using copy and paste. Mind blown.

And then read this too (if you wonder about the origin of the domain name): http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/blinkenlights.html

Related project from Berlin: http://blinkenlights.net/

Han does shoot first!

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