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    From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to All on Tue Aug 4 15:55:07 2020
    Hello All,

    We have a new one:

    91 2:5030/1520 Andrey Geyko T-6in4 he.net f


    Andrey: welcome to the Fidonet IPv6 club!

    We also had to say goodby to some. Some dropped out of the nodelist, some changed ISP and their new ISP no longer supported IPv6 and they did get around installing a tunnel. Some just dropped IPv6 for reasons unknown.

    See next message for the updated list


    Cheers, Michiel

    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20170303
    * Origin: he.net certified sage (2:280/5555)
  • From Jay Harris@1:229/664 to Michiel van der Vlist on Tue Aug 4 11:42:21 2020
    On 04 Aug 2020, Michiel van der Vlist said the following...

    We also had to say goodby to some. Some dropped out of the nodelist, some changed ISP and their new ISP no longer supported IPv6 and they did get around installing a tunnel. Some just dropped IPv6 for reasons unknown.

    My ISP (Rogers) supports IPv6, but it doesn't seem to be very reliable. Not sure if it's my router or the ISP that's the issue. I may play with it again soon & see what happens.

    Jay

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/06/11 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Northern Realms BBS | bbs.nrbbs.net | Binbrook, ON (1:229/664)
  • From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to Jay Harris on Tue Aug 4 21:32:59 2020
    Hello Jay,

    On Tuesday August 04 2020 11:42, you wrote to me:

    My ISP (Rogers) supports IPv6, but it doesn't seem to be very
    reliable. Not sure if it's my router or the ISP that's the issue. I
    may play with it again soon & see what happens.

    Reliable or not, adding IPv6 to your Fidonet node is a good playground to get to know IPv6 without much potential for harmfull side effects. If IPv6 occasionally fails, it won't do much harm when IPv4 is still operational. The mail will come though anyway..

    So go for it! ;-)


    Cheers, Michiel

    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20170303
    * Origin: he.net certified sage (2:280/5555)
  • From Jay Harris@1:229/664 to Michiel van der Vlist on Tue Aug 4 17:29:45 2020
    On 04 Aug 2020, Michiel van der Vlist said the following...

    Reliable or not, adding IPv6 to your Fidonet node is a good playground
    to get to know IPv6 without much potential for harmfull side effects. If IPv6 occasionally fails, it won't do much harm when IPv4 is still operational. The mail will come though anyway..

    Alright, in theory my Mystic BinkP server should be available via IPv6 on
    port 24554 or 24553 for SSL:

    Server: dns.google
    Address: 2001:4860:4860::8888

    Non-authoritative answer:
    Name: bbs.nrbbs.net
    Addresses: 2607:fea8:ab00:e4f:9c8:a528:aa91:34cb
    173.33.12.16

    I changed some settings in Windows, so that IPv6 address _shouldn't_ change, though sometimes my ISP changes the first half.

    Jay

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/06/11 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Northern Realms BBS | bbs.nrbbs.net | Binbrook, ON (1:229/664)
  • From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to Jay Harris on Wed Aug 5 00:21:47 2020
    Hello Jay,

    On Tuesday August 04 2020 17:29, you wrote to me:

    Alright, in theory my Mystic BinkP server should be available via IPv6
    on port 24554 or 24553 for SSL:

    + 00:15 [2952] call to 1:229/664@fidonet
    00:15 [2952] trying f664.n229.z1.binkp.net [2607:fea8:ab00:e4f:9c8:a528:aa91:34cb]...
    00:15 [2952] connected
    + 00:15 [2952] outgoing session with f664.n229.z1.binkp.net:24554
    [2607:fea8:ab00:e4f:9c8:a528:aa91:34cb]
    - 00:15 [2952] OPT CRAM-MD5-e82c45d3f66e229cfdd74c507105c62f
    + 00:15 [2952] Remote requests MD mode
    - 00:15 [2952] SYS Northern Realms
    - 00:15 [2952] ZYZ Warpslide
    - 00:15 [2952] TIME Tue, 04 Aug 2020 18:16:00 -0400
    - 00:15 [2952] VER Mystic/1.12A46 binkp/1.0
    - 00:15 [2952] BUILD 2020/06/11 15:07:33 Windows/32
    + 00:16 [2952] addr: 1:229/664@fidonet

    Check!

    Jay, welcome to the Fidonet IPv6 club.


    Cheers, Michiel

    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20170303
    * Origin: he.net certified sage (2:280/5555)
  • From Jay Harris@1:229/664 to Michiel van der Vlist on Tue Aug 4 20:37:16 2020
    On 05 Aug 2020, Michiel van der Vlist said the following...

    Check!

    Jay, welcome to the Fidonet IPv6 club.

    WOO HOO! :D

    Jay

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/06/11 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Northern Realms BBS | bbs.nrbbs.net | Binbrook, ON (1:229/664)