IPv6

I decided to host a public mirror for test-ipv6.com, you can find my mirror at test-ipv6.websters-computers.com.
You can find out about becoming a mirror on there wiki and they have some setup instructions but was missing a few steps, so here's how i did it.
Note: This works for me on linux centos 5.x may not work the same on other systems.

What is World IPv6 day? - It is a trial period where a number of major web sites will provide their content on both IPv4 and IPv6. This is being sponsored by the Internet Society (ISOC) more information is posted on their World IPv6 Day page.

What is the point? - The goal is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.

In this blog I'll try and explain what ipv6 is and how i setup the server to use it.

What is IPv6? IPv6 is pretty much the same as IPv4. IPv4 is what is primarily used on the internet today. The big difference is the size of the address. The address for IPv6 are 128 bits long vs 32 bits for IPv4. IPv6 also uses hex to express address where as IPv4 only uses numeric values so you will see numbers 0-9 and letters A-F in a IPv6 address.

Well seeing as this blog is a way for me to document what i do to the servers i use i should start by giving some specs on the main server it self.

My main server is hosted by INX-Gaming at Bluesquare Datacentre, Maidenhead.
Its a self managed dedicated server with a 100mbit connection
Dell PowerEdge 860 1U rack mount
Intel Xeon Dual core CPU 3040
Ram 4GB (2x 2GB DDR2)
Hard drive sata 250GB
Its running Linux CentOS 5.4 with the PAE kernel.