Tag: IPv6

AVM releases IPv6 BETA firmwares for international Fritz!Box versions

AVM just released 2 IPv6-enabled BETA firmwares for the international versions of the Fritz!Box models 7270 and 7570 VDSL.

I have been testing the BETA firmware for about 2 weeks now. I’m very with the new DECT coverage this firmware provides, it almost doubled the coverage for me. Continue reading “AVM releases IPv6 BETA firmwares for international Fritz!Box versions”

Query the root servers via IPv6

I did some DNS debugging and noticed that my server wasn’t querying the root-servers via IPv6. I checked the root hint zone file delivered with my Bind9 binary package, the file was from 1998! So I downloaded the latest version from http://www.internic.net/zones/named.root. Of course IPv6 queries to the root-servers work like a charm now, however please note that only 7 of 13 root-servers are IPv6-enabled.

New IPv6 firmware release for the Fritz!Box

On 20th May AVM released their latest lab version (54.04.94-14338) of the IPv6 enabled firmware for the Fritz!Box 7270. A few of the fixes in this release are:

  • the Fritz!Box now replies to the SIXXS control pings, so that you can collect points.
  • the GUI for UMTS Internet access configuration has been optimized, I haven’t tested if it works in Luxembourg, I hope to do so in the next few days.
  • a few other security and usability optimizations.

SixXS support for the Fritz!Box

I recently tested the 6to4 IPv6 support in the latest AVM Firmware for Fritz!Box Fon WLAN 7270. Now I tried to setup a tunnel to SixXS which failed during my first tests. The Fritz Box didn’t complain about the fact that my SixXS tunnel didn’t have any subnet allocated. Once a subnet was added to my tunnel, the Fritz!Box was able to setup the tunnel. I had my tunnel set to “6in4-heartbeat”, I haven’t tested “AYIYA”. I also found another IPv6 enabled website: ripe.net, quite obvious at second view 😀

My Fritz Box runs IPv6

I installed the latest firmware (54.04.94-13992) for the AVM Fritz!Box Fon WLAN 7270 released on 31 march 2009. The 6to4 configuration just works out of the box on my DSL from EPT. Unfortunately EPT doesn’t run an own 6to4-relay so they currently route me to a 7 hops away Hurrican Electric 6to4-relay. I didn’t get the SIXXS support to work yet, I will retry it on some other day. Continue reading “My Fritz Box runs IPv6”