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As title really, I need to access a newsgroup server which is using IPv6, will I need any special software to do this?
Can I connect to IPv6 servers under Snow?
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Damn, looks like I'm going to have to install VirtualBox and install Hexago client on an XP VM! 
Sorry! I meant you wouldn't need any special software over Leopard for example, you can still connect to IPv6 servers in Snow Leopard.
I recommend MT-NewsWater if you haven't tried it already. Has worked like a charm.
I recommend MT-NewsWater if you haven't tried it already. Has worked like a charm.
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Not quite true, the 6to4 interface in OSX works just fine and is very easy to configure - only downside is I believe you need a public IP available for the GUI config to work (you might get round that by some config file editing but I don't know, I've got loads of public IPs).
But if you can get it working that's all there is too it, no tunnel setup required and no faffing about with your ISP...
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Oh right, interesting, I don't know that much about IPv6, only the fact that I have set it up - there's not really much use for it at the moment, unless you want to see the dancing kame at kame.net
Reputedly there are free newsgroups offering decent speeds, but I couldn't say myself (I'm not covering myself, I've actually no idea if it's true).
It's going to take off soon, I'm finalising the ipv6 addressing and routing strategy for one of the biggest hosting companies in the UK currently and I suspect from the increasing amount of discussion on nanog and the like that more and more other people are too...
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Plenty of expensive enterprise grade firewalls don't support ipv6 yet, consumer routers are actually fairly unproblematic, we'll probably go the same way as US DSL connections and have the routers in bridge mode mainly. Keep in mind that NAT dies as part of ipv6 and we all get a unique public IP range (so people will actually need to firewall stuff - which is a little scary).
Everybody should get a /48 according to the commonly accepted wisdom at the moment. But a lot of fairly technical staff at ISPs are struggling to adjust to ipv6 concepts and grasp that IPs are no longer something we're desperately short of. Worst case everybody at home gets a /64 (which is only the entire ipv4 internet squared).
And I'll stop now before I drag this totally off track...
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I already have a newsgroup client, I like sabnzbd and it works fine under OSX.
I've just tried to access http://ipv6.google.com/ and it did not load, so I guess my ISP does not have IPv6 support.
Under windows XP, I was using a tunneling service called hexago, but the problem appears to be that they do not have client software for OSX.
That sounds ideal, do you have any more info on this method as it sounds better than using a tunnel service. All I need to be able to do is access http://ipv6.google.com under OSX, I don't really mind how I do it, but using an XP VM under Virtualbox isn't really ideal...
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That sounds ideal, do you have any more info on this method as it sounds better than using a tunnel service. All I need to be able to do is access http://ipv6.google.com under OSX, I don't really mind how I do it, but using an XP VM under Virtualbox isn't really ideal...
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore/hints/howto-6to4-macosx.html
shows you how to add the interface, it may require a public IP address on the computer itself though (ie. it doesn't support NAT). I'm not sure if this is the case anymore as I don't use NAT....
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I should add, if that doesn't work then just use www.tunnelbroker.net, once you've created a new tunnel there's a drop down which will give you the precise command lines needed to set it up under OSX...