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    From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to All on Fri May 16 14:36:40 2014
    Hello All,

    Summer is coming and so I have unmothballed my laptop. It runs Win 7. I have installed the latest vesrion of binkd, and so my point 1 is now also IPv6 capable. If it is not sleeping, it will answer binkd calll at kbt.vlist.eu.

    Some IPv6 things that I never got to work work with XP, ate working as expected with Win 7. For example :

    1) Neighbour discovery does not work in XP. I can call my XP machine from my Win 7 laoptp by its link local address. That does noet work the other way around. I have to use the global address. Conclusion: Neighbour discovery is broken in XP.

    2) My XP machine is reachable from the outside via my SixXs tunnel - which has its end point on that machine - but it cannot be pinged or binkp's via my he.net tunnel. My Atlas probe (atlas.vlist.eu) and my laptop (kbt.vlist.eu) are ping6able. My laptop is binkp'able via my he.net tunnel. The forwarding in the router is the same, except for the actual address of course. Conclusion: something is broken in XP's IPv6 implementation.

    Although I have mixed feelings about all the alarm bells over XPocalypse, these shortcomings are another incentive to get rid of XP.



    Cheers, Michiel

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  • From Nicholas Boel@1:154/701 to Michiel van der Vlist on Fri May 16 17:27:40 2014
    On 05-16-14, Michiel van der Vlist said the following...

    Although I have mixed feelings about all the alarm bells over
    XPocalypse, these shortcomings are another incentive to get rid of XP.

    I knew after you moving from Irex to binkd that you would soon see this as well. I run Windows 7 here and didn't have to setup or manually configure a damn thing on it. Everything works as it should in regards to IPv6. It's not
    a server system, it's just my desktop. My main Fido node and any offsprings
    run Linux, and are also very good with IPv6.

    If it is easy for you to move your FTN stuff to Win7, I highly recommend you
    do so. :)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to Nicholas Boel on Sun May 18 00:53:08 2014
    Hello Nicholas,

    On Friday May 16 2014 17:27, you wrote to me:

    Although I have mixed feelings about all the alarm bells over
    XPocalypse, these shortcomings are another incentive to get rid of
    XP.

    I knew after you moving from Irex to binkd that you would soon see
    this as well.

    I knew from the start that Win XP's IPv6 implementation was only partial, but I was under the impression that it would be good enough for me, especially since all the IPv6 tests I ran, indicated no problems.

    It would seem that the tests are too limited. test-ipv6.com gives me 10/10. Nice but it just tests what a client only user would need.

    There is another test: ipv6-test.com. That one tests a few things that you need when you run servers too. It reports that it can not ping my XP machines connected via the he.net tunnel. My guess is that this is a problem with the XIn XP firewall.

    Then again it also reports there is no reverse DNS for my IPv6 address. And that is too strict. Of course there is not, I have privicay extensions emabled foroboth my XP and Win9 machines. So the test just sees the temporary IPv6 address, not the address that is in the DNS zone files...

    I run Windows 7 here and didn't have to setup or manually configure a
    damn thing on it. Everything works as it should in regards to IPv6.

    As it should...

    It's not a server system, it's just my desktop. My main Fido node and
    any offsprings run Linux, and are also very good with IPv6.

    The Linux crowd always walked ahead...

    If it is easy for you to move your FTN stuff to Win7, I highly
    recommend you do so. :)

    It is on the todo list...


    Cheers, Michiel

    --- GoldED+/W32-MINGW 1.1.5-b20110320
    * Origin: 2001:470:1f15:1117::1 (2:280/5555)