New tun­nel back up. We’re using open­vpn now for secure tun­nel­ing. Real great piece of soft­ware. It doesn’t rely on ker­nel mod­ules or any other pro­pri­et­ary low-level add-on or operating-system link­age. It even runs on win­dows sys­tems without prob­lems! The new (and hope­fully final) address range is 2001:1410:100:3210::/64. Check your dns for the cur­rent address alloc­a­tion within npw.net ;).

The newly registered IPv6 tun­nel is down again. Some­thing went wrong, don’t actu­ally know what. Nev­er­the­less, I won’t re-register with tun­nel­broker. I got a new IPv6-range from in-ulm.de, an Inter­net and net­work­ing asso­ci­ation from Ulm/Neu-Ulm, Ger­many. The latency will there­fore decrease quite a lot, from approx­im­ately about 200–400 ms to about 30ms from npw.net to the next hop.

I actu­ally do not know when the tun­nel (will be some­thing encryp­ted) is ready, so IPv6 will be down for some days (weeks?).

I finally man­aged to get a pro­duc­tional ipv6 address space that replaces my old 6Bone test­ing alloc­a­tion. It was kindly provided by JOIN. Just to mention.

I do not know when 6Bone is finally shut down, but it is time to change, I think. How­ever, all npw.net ser­vices are again reach­able through ipv6. Addi­tion­ally, I have added AAAA records to all the other *.npw.net sub­do­mains this morning.

Free 64-bit ipv6 sub­nets are avail­able at tunnelbroker.net.

The less green the small boxes behind the menu items are, the longer they have been unat­ten­ded. If there is no green share left, noth­ing has been mod­i­fied in the last three months (90 days).

The (hope­fully many) green blocks at the right side of the menue are indic­at­ors for when the pages, files or links behind the menu items were last mod­i­fied. This may help you find­ing the most inter­est­ing and cur­rent inform­a­tion on this web­site. It is only a little gim­mick, but … well it may be use­ful. It is at least for me. ;)
There are by the way sev­eral other func­tion­al­ity enhance­ments: menu items may now be col­lapsed for a bet­ter over­view. The per­sonal pref­er­ences are stored for the cur­rent ses­sion only, so when the browser is closed, the con­fig­ur­a­tion is lost. Nice and sense­less, isn’t it :).