I finally got an IPv6 tunnel going on my Netscreen SSG 5. So I thought I'd post the relevant configuration details here.



I'm currently running ScreenOS 5.4.0r3a0; there seems to be some WebUI bugs with IPv6 so it is best to do it via the command line.



Update: I just got a response back from JTAC. IPv6 is only supported on the ISG2000. So I'm unsure when/if it the WebUI bugs will be fixed.



Update2: IPv6 is now supported on the SSG 5 under screenos 6, the WEBUI bug has been fixed.



Background info:

• Trust interface 10.0.0.254/22 - bgroup0
• Untrust interface - bgroup2
• IPv6 broker (broker.aarnet.net.au) - 202.158.196.131
• IPv6 subnet - 2001:388:c021::1/64

The first step is to enable IPv6 on your Netscreen.



Type the following then save your config and restart the device:




Now let's setup the trust interface:




So we've setup my trust interface with the IPv6 subnet and autoconfiguration should be working.



Now let's setup a tunnel interface for the traffic to run through:




Now we'll setup a static route for IPv6 traffic to go through:




And finally we need to setup a policy to allow traffic out:




You may want to setup some policies to allow traffic in too.



That should be all you need to do.

Our web server died a few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to borrow a spare DL380 G1 from work. Although we still have it, I'm not sure if we'll be able to keep it.



So this new server is a DL360 G1 (1 rack unit):

• Dual Pentium 3 1.266GHz (512K L2 Cache)
• 256mb Ram (we will upgrade it if it goes into production)
• 18gb SCSI HDD
• 2 100mbit onboard nics

Here is what it looks like:

I finally setup LDAP on Kerio. I now have my contacts synced with webmail, mac address book and my phone. Awesome.







Anyone who uses our email server can now make use of this too.



The server (mail.lttd.net) allows secure LDAP connections on port 16360 (636 is the standard port but the mail server is also a domain controller, so that port is in use).



More details can be found in the Kerio User Manual:

http://download.kerio.com/dwn/kmsug6-en.pdf

I think I've found the cause for Akismet not working as well as it should have.



The class I was using had a low timeout value; I've since increased this to 10 seconds, inline with the new Wordpress 2 plugin.



So hopefully that will improve the amount of spam being caught.

I just purchased My Chemical Romance, The Black Parade. I saw them live when I went to see Green Day. I'm really enjoying this album.

I'm testing out a new spam system I quickly wrote.



Hopefully now if you're either logged in or have posted before with the same email address your comment shouldn't be deleted.







I plan to add more tests (see post below) later.

Argh. Too much spam is getting through again; even with Akismet. So I'm in the process of writing a new spam class. The aim is to build a comment score (similar to email spam filtering programs) based on the following:

• Email Address/Name/Website
• Comment Body (number of links etc)
• If the user is registered
• If the user has successfully posted a comment before
• white and black lists
• response from akismet
• how old and how many comments a post has

So hopefully I can cut down the spam.

And that should be the last time for a while.



IP Addresses

Web: 202.129.82.194

Mail: 202.129.82.193



EDIT: Looks like some of our secondary DNS servers (rollernet.us) are having problems updating. I've just made some changes to try and fix it.



We've also just purchased an SSL Certificate for mail.lttd.net, so the primary mail server address will soon be mail.lttd.net.

I suspect trying to have both a blog called Bluetrait and a piece of blog software called Bluetrait is a bad idea...