Two steps forward and one step back

I’m happy to report that oxcrag.net has been upgraded from a crappy ADSL line to a fibre based connection, which has improved uplink speed for the server tremendously. Unfortunately, it looks as though newer technology doesn’t always imply that everything gets better: Unlike what the representative for the fibre project stated, there’s no sign of… Continue reading Two steps forward and one step back

IPv6 guests in KVM

I’ve been experimenting with IPv6 at home, and spent some time trying to get it working in my virtual machines. The first symptom I got was that VMs got a “Network unreachable” error when trying to ping6 anything but their own address. The cause was a complete brainfart on my side: We need a loopback interface… Continue reading IPv6 guests in KVM