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AirPort ♡ Free IPV6 From TunnelBroker.net

apokalyptik — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:41:50 +0000

After signing up for a (free) account on tunnelbroker.net and creating a (free) tunnel with my ipv4 address as the endpoint I was able to easily configure my AirPort Extreme. View your tunnel, then click on “Example Configurations” and then “Apple Airport.”

In TCP/IP prefs for my MacBooks Network/AirPort Preferences I have “Configure IPv6″ set to “Automatically” Then BOOM “ping6 en.blog.wordpress.com” works just fine.

IPv6 without needing my ISPs support and it didn’t cost me an extra dime. Happy World IPv6 Day

Debian Lenny, Avahi, AFP… Linux Fileserver for OSX Clients

apokalyptik — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:25:51 +0000

If you’re like me you have an OSX computer or 3 at home, and a debian file server. If you’re like me you hate samba/nfs on principle and want your debian server to show up in finder. If you’re like me you arent using debian 3 which is what most of the walkthroughs seem to expect… This is how I did it… With Debian Lenny.

What we’re using, and why:

Avahi handles zeroconf (making it show up in finder) (most howtos involve howl which is no longer in apt)
netatalk has afpd
afpd is the fileserver

From: http://blog.damontimm.com/how-to-install-netatalk-afp-on-ubuntu-with-encrypted-authentication/

apt-get update
mkdir -p ~/src/netatalk
cd ~/src/netatalk
apt-get install cracklib2-dev libssl-dev
apt-get source netatalk
apt-get build-dep netatalk
cd netatalk-2.0.3

From: http://www.sharedknowhow.com/2008/05/installing-netatalk-under-centos-5-with-leopard-support/

vim bin/cnid/cnid_index.c ## replace “ret = db->stat(db, &sp, 0);” with “ret = db->stat(db, NULL, &sp, 0);” line 277
vim etc/cnid_dbd/dbif.c ## replace “ret = db->stat(db, &sp, 0);” with “ret = db->stat(db, NULL, &sp, 0);” line 517

Mine

./configure –prefix=/usr/local/netatalk
make
make install
vim /etc/rc.local ## add “/usr/local/netatalk/sbin/afpd”
/usr/local/netatalk/sbin/afpd

From: http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2007/general/how-to-get-your-linux-based-afp-server-to-show-up-correctly-in-leopards-new-finder

apt-get install avahi-daemon
vim /etc/nsswitch.conf ## make the hosts line read “hosts: files dns mdns4″
cd /etc/avahi/services
wget http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/media/afpd.service
/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon restart

in case that file drops off the face of the net, this is its contents (except “< ?” is “

< ?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?>
< !DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">

%h

_afpovertcp._tcp
548

At this point your server should show up under the network in your finder… and you should be able to connect with any system username/pw combo

The iPhone… Its not even out yet and everyone is drooling over it

apokalyptik — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:46:57 +0000

And if they aren’t, they should be! Ajax has long been the missing link between phones as a mobile computing platform and phones as a simple messaging device. the fact is that there is a vastly larger poll of people willing to write useful web apps than useful java apps. I would also argue that it’s easier to write good web apps than java apps of the same magnitude. So with apples announcement that the iPhone will support web 2.0 standards (read AJAX) what was once a tasty looking new toy has become something more. It’s become a tasty toy with a good enough reason for the cost. I’d have to pay to break my contract with Sprint, start a contract with Cingular, buy the new iPhone, buy the wife a new phone (shared Sprint plan)…. I’m probably looking at $700-$1000 to make the switch. And I’m already thinking that its worth it. I’m going to hold off though… as long as I can stand it. I want someone to review it, I want to see how the web explosion hits Cingulars networks… I want to see how hard they are to find at first… Mostly I just want the damn phone really bad… But I’m gonna try to be a good boy and hold off… Maybe