Hanno's blog

Recently various news pages were posting about the nearing breakthrough of IPv6 (e.g. german newspage golem: IPv6 steht vor dem Durchbruch).

For me, associate of a small and innovative provider, I can't see this breakthrough. It seems nearly impossible to find hosting for dedicated servers which offer native IPv6 (at least with reasonable hardware/price conditions). Yes, I know I can tunnel through sixxs or other tunnel brokers, but I don't want low-speed IPv6 for people who can wait, I want to support IPv6 in same quality and speed than normal IPv4.

If you're working on the small side (dedicated servers, no colocation), you're out of luck twice. You hardly find providers that provide you with more than a few IPv4 IPs and you hardly can do anything to push the next gen IPv6 forward.

I usually don't like to do too much blogging about my blog, but I recently installed two new features I find worth mentioning.

One is that I have installed the serendipity calendar plugin, which you can see on the right (if you aren't reading rss). It'll contain events I find interesting/worth mentioning and will probably visit and maybe write reports about. It's a bit limited, it doesn't support more detailed time information (events longer than a day, time etc.), it shows the days till the event, but not for the first one, which I don't understand yet why. Maybe I'll hack a bit on it.

The other thing is that this blog is now available on IPv6 and there also with a correct, CAcert-signed ssl-certificate. So you can now read my blog secure ;-)
CAcert is a noncommercial certification authority based on a web-of-trust mechanism and I suggest you install their root-cert in your browser.