[cs631apue] ec2 instances now with IPv6 addresses

Jan Schaumann jschauma at stevens.edu
Sat Nov 23 15:21:47 EST 2013


Hello,

I've just created IPv6 tunnels to the EC2 instances we use:

$ host cs631-omnios.netmeister.org
cs631-omnios.netmeister.org has address 54.225.22.84
cs631-omnios.netmeister.org has IPv6 address 2001:470:1f06:b40::2
$ host cs631-netbsd.netmeister.org
cs631-netbsd.netmeister.org has address 54.211.148.123
cs631-netbsd.netmeister.org has IPv6 address 2001:470:1f06:b3e::2
$ 

You can now talk IPv6 between these two instances and any hosts on the
internet with IPv6 connectivity.  (Stevens does not currently support
IPv6, which is rather unfortunate.)

Your ISP may or may not provide native IPv6 connectivity.

Either way, you can now test your programs on these hosts with full IPv6
capabilities instead of just on the ::1 loopback interface.

-Jan


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