[oliland]

Don't forget to watch Episode IV in the terminal!

    $ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

When I was younger I went out of my way to get a V6 address just to watch it in color ;)

[schmidp]

No color for me:

  Well, the IPv6 version is exactly the same as the IPv4 one.

       The difference is in the visitors...                              
                                                
       Je bent een Stoere Bikkel, aka You Rock.

[loeg]

Quoth oliland: > When I was younger I went out of my way to get a V6 address just to watch it in color ;)

Note the semi-colon ;-).

[IgorPartola]

apt-get install miredo

That works as a last resort. Or sign up for SixXS using an AYIYA tunnel, apt-get install aiccu and enjoy.

[dfc]

Miredo? AYIYA? Yuck.

Just use HE.net's tunnelbroker and set up a 6in4 tunnel[1]. FWIW there was no color for me either when I connected via ipv6. Just the same message about different visitors as printed above. Just to be sure ran:

  telnet -6 towel.blinkenlights.nl

[1] http://www.shorewall.net/6to4.htm#SixInFour

[IgorPartola]

Miredo/teredo is yuck indeed. ATIYA is not bad, I am not sure why you turn your nose to it. Practically it just adds 8 bytes to the headers compared to 6in4 yet is a lot easier to set up. Specifically, if you do not have a router that you control and that can do IPv6 and ip6tables, AYIYA is the easiest to set up and have a static address. I would not set it up for a server but for a small LAN it will be no different than 6in4.

[dfc]

I understand what you are saying, AYIYA is not as bad as miredo. But lets face it:

Router That You Control + IPv6 + ip6tables = Any Linux Box

It is even easier with:

Router That You Control + IPv6 + ip6tables + shorewall6 = Any Linux Box

Configuring the linux box is essentially as easy as appending the following to /etc/network/interfaces:

  ### IPv6

  auto he-ipv6

  iface he-ipv6 inet6 v4tunnel
        address  1234:987:1234:743::2
        netmask  64
        endpoint 209.51.161.14
        ttl      255
        gateway 1234:987:1234:743::1
        post-up sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
  
  
  iface eth1 inet6 static
        address 1234:567:8901:1::1
        netmask 64

Spend five minutes with /etc/shorewall6/shorewall6.conf and you are done. Granted my mom is not going to do that but for anyone on HN that should be a walk in the park.

[vy8vWJlco]

Don't forget gogoc.

[charlesju]

That's so awesome. I can't believe this exists. How did they make it?

[chrismarlow9]

From the creator:

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/asciimation/ascii_faq.html

From his page he says he just ported what this guy did to telnet.

[Tekker]

It should be noted that the Star Wars asciimation guy also did the thoroughly awesome Jet Powered Beer Cooler using a jet engine built in his shed (in NZ) to chill his guinness to a respectable 2c, of which I am in awe.

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/index.html

[Wintamute]

Oh my God he made it in a simple text editor using copy and paste. Mind blown.

[InclinedPlane]

And then read this too (if you wonder about the origin of the domain name): http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/blinkenlights.html

[sebkomianos]

Related project from Berlin: http://blinkenlights.net/

[gocard]

Han does shoot first!