IPv6 Tests

As my next experiment, I decided to build an IPv6 Lab to see if:

  1. I can get IPv6 running in an isolated environment
  2. I can get services running such as DNS and HTTP running over IPv6
  3. I can access the IPv6 services from IPv4 only hosts

After some work, mostly due to my lack of experience with installing BIND from scratch and learning how to configure Apache for IPv6, I finally got the following environment up and running:

(click on the diagram for a larger image)

As it turned out, I was also able to reach all of my goals.  For the most part, somethings were straight forward, others were not so straight forward. So that this post doesn’t get too long I will list the steps I took and the configurations I used in individual posts.

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