{"id":14,"date":"2006-03-23T15:04:09","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T15:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2006\/03\/23\/bt-exact-ipv6-tunnel-broker-is-back\/"},"modified":"2010-11-11T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T13:02:08","slug":"bt-exact-ipv6-tunnel-broker-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/2006\/03\/23\/bt-exact-ipv6-tunnel-broker-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"BT Exact IPv6 Tunnel Broker is back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the <a href=\"https:\/\/tb.ipv6.btexact.com\/\">BT Exact IPv6 tunnel broker<\/a> is finally back up and running after being offline for a week. It seems\u00c2\u00a0they had a hardware failure of some kind which knocked out their whole TB operation. I appreciate this is a free service, but it&#8217;s still a pain not having it available. That said, I\u00c2\u00a0was reluctant\u00c2\u00a0to change to another broker since so far, ignoring this incident, their service\u00c2\u00a0seems to be pretty good:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Very simple to set up &#8211; no messing around with special applications.<\/li>\n<li>UK based, so only\u00c2\u00a06 hops outside of my ADSL provider&#8217;s network, and\u00c2\u00a04 away from my hosted server&#8217;s network. In both cases it&#8217;s a single hop straight from the provider&#8217;s network on to the BT network.<\/li>\n<li>Supports reverse DNS delegation.<\/li>\n<li>Simple interface for setting up and modifying tunnels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finding an alternative to this would have been hard. Unless anyone has any recommendations?<\/p>\n<p>Obviously this is not an ideal long-term solution; I still have to tunnel over the relevant IPv4 networks to get to the broker. What I really want is native IPv6 straight from my service providers. I guess I expect this sort of service more from my hosting company, and when I last asked they said it&#8217;s something they wanted to look at. For the average person, though, this is something that needs to come from the ISP, but that&#8217;s probably a long way off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the BT Exact IPv6 tunnel broker is finally back up and running after being offline for a week. It seems\u00c2\u00a0they had a hardware failure of some kind which knocked out their whole TB operation. I appreciate this is a free service, but it&#8217;s still a pain not having it available. That said, I\u00c2\u00a0was reluctant\u00c2\u00a0to change to another &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bishnet.net\/tim\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}