FYI: free IPv6-only binary newsserver

[shypike]

Delete By: Sander J (sanderj) - 2008-01-19 12:27
Hi, a FYI:

As SABnzbd 0.3.0 supports IPv6 (thank you, ShyPike and others!), you can use the free IPv6-only binary newsserver newszilla6.xs4all.nl. That is: if you have IPv6 connectivity.

To check if you have IPv6 connectivity, use "ping6 newszilla6.xs4all.nl". If you get ping6's back (see below), you have IPv6 connectivity. Using newszilla6.xs4all.nl is then just a matter of filling out newszilla6.xs4all.nl in SABnzbd's GUI (Config -> Servers, or http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/config/server/ ), and off you go!

Retention of newszilla6 is about 12 - 14 days. Connection is free for all, but non-xs4all-customers are limited to 500 kbps = 50 kBps, or 175 MB per hour. A 700MB DivX will thus take 4 hours, a 4.2GB DVD will take 24 hours.



If you don't get ping6's back, you have no IPv6 connectivity. You can get free IPv6 connectivity via http://www.sixxs.net/, for example. Signing up takes some time, however setting up IPv6 is easy using aiccu and AYIYA. Help via sixxs.

HTH



sander@fujitsu:~$ ping6 newszilla6.xs4all.nl
PING newszilla6.xs4all.nl(newszilla6.xs4all.nl) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from newszilla6.xs4all.nl: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=20.6 ms
64 bytes from newszilla6.xs4all.nl: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=24.9 ms
64 bytes from newszilla6.xs4all.nl: icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=20.2 ms

--- newszilla6.xs4all.nl ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 20.273/21.954/24.940/2.116 ms
sander@fujitsu:~$




      RE: FYI: free IPv6-only binary newsserver
      Delete By: rascalli (rascalli) - 2008-01-19 20:22
      nice one ...
     
      /me is still on XP .. no ipv6 yet

            RE: FYI: free IPv6-only binary newsserver
            Delete By: Sander J (sanderj) - 2008-01-19 21:14
            Windows XP can perfectly do IPv6. See http://www.sixxs.net/faq/connectivity/? ... os=windows
           

[sander]

Followup to my own post:

IPv6 connectivity on Ubuntu Linux is supereasy: it's there after a simple "sudo apt-get install tspc". Check it with 'ifconfig' and 'traceroute6 news6.xs4all.nl'.

On other OSes: get IPv6 connectivity on www.go6.net : it will only take a minute.