I still don't have IPv6 at home. But I do have a server with a /64
net. Over christmas, I finally had the chance to figure out how to
set up a tunnel to my server.
Turns out this is pretty easy. You need SSH access and root privileges
on your server -- but no root login is required (contrary to popular
believe). I'm not going into details yet. I'll test this for some days
and if it indeed works well, I'll write a blog posting about it.
I've read through a lot of blog posts by other people. It seems things
have become easier in the last 1 or 2 years. Or maybe it's because I
use a static IPv6 setup. Dunno. I've never trusted most automatisms...
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29c3 is currently taking place. As usual, I cannot attend it. Also as
usual, recordings of the talks are available. As usual, all mirrors
are pretty slow. Except for those that are only accessible via IPv6.
I've just downloaded the recordings of two talks and I got 10 MBytes
per second. Wuha.
Yes, I downloaded them to my server, not to my workstation (and not
over the new tunnel described above). But that doesn't matter. I still
get nice 4 Mbytes per second from my server to my workstation. So
essentially, my server functions as a goddamn fast mirror just for me.
Heh.
(Yes, I feel guilty for not sharing it. You wouldn't benefit much from
it anyway though because there's only room for about 5 videos. I
download them to my server, then I watch them and then I have to
delete them.)
