AVetter

Today we start our sailing trip. Our flight is from Zurich direct to Bodrum, so we don’t have to change the plane. In the evening we should be at the huge harbor in Bodrum. I hope our rented yacht is in a good condition =).

At the moment the wind speed is perfect because of the Meltemi wind. Last time we had bad luck with the wind, because most of the days we had not enough wind.

Our yacht ( Bavaria 39 Cruiser):

• Length: 39 ft
• Color: white
• Fuel tank: 210 l
• Water tank: 360 l

Hopefully I can write sometimes a new post with news about our trip. If I can find a open wireless network =), I will update this blog. Otherwise you can read everything about it when I’m back. Especially the pictures will be on this blog if I’m back, because the traffic over the mobile phone or a wireless network can be really expensive.

Today there are only a few ISP’s that provide native IPv6 addresses to their customers. In switzerland cyberlink.ch is an example for such an ISP. However if you are one of the lucky guys who has such an provider you are faced to another problem, because now you can use IPv6 services and visit IPv6 pages but you can’t visit IPv4 pages or use IPv4 services.

One solution is to add the following prefix to each IPv4 page you want to visit:
*.sixxs.org

For example:
http://blog.avetter.ch.sixxs.org/

With this great service it’s really easy to switch to an IPv6 address. You don’t have to worry about a tunnel to the IPv4 Network and no extra tools are needed. I think this is really the simplest way to use IPv4 over IPv6.

In the last few days I made my first tests with IPv6, up to now it’s great to find more and more new features. At the beginning I had a problem to visit IPv6 pages like ipv6.google.com with the firefox. When I used the safari there wasn’t a problem and the ping6 ipv6.google.com was also successful. If you have the same problem you should do the following.

1. Open firefox
2. about:config
3. Search for “network.dns.disableIPv6″
4. This value is true but you should change it to false
5. After that you problem is solved and firefox can resolve IPv6 dns requests

Try IPv6!!!