Loopback Filter with Truman Boyes

My trip to China is finally booked, well most of it anyway. Some parts of the travel are going to be left until the last minute when I actually know where I need to be; it appears to be in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Beijing. I am flying out of JFK airport in NYC, and the toss up on which airport to fly out of  (I would have preferred closer EWR) really came down to the Airline, Frequent Flyer Programme, and the total travel time. Cathay Pacific is a really good airline from my experience in traveling around Asia, and better yet they are part of OneWorld so on these long flights I am able to get some more miles to use on personal trips.

At the Qantas lounge this morning, about to fly back to USA; embarking on a 30+hr total travel time back to the east coast. Looking forward to getting back to the family.

This time in AU was good; met up with lots of the mates; Steve, AJ, Mark, Andy, etc. It’s time to get ready to board the flight, power up vmware fusion and start hacking on asteriskv6. Really looking to get this tree of asterisk up and running well. If anyone knows a good SIP client that supports v6, let me know … so far it seems like linphone and kphone are still a tad rough around the edges.

Picked up a good book, “The Shrinking World of Darwin” which I plan to page through on the plane. My general take is that the book is an enjoyable read that presents the idea(s) that the year 1859 is of significant importance because it marks a period of incredible change. Not only did Charles Darwin publish his ideas around his theories of evolution, but there was also a momentum of science and change that slingshotted the idea of evolution and science around the world.

I have travel back to Melbourne planned in January and then a trip to Bangkok, Thailand. Hoping that the political situation in Thailand is sorted out by that time; the military will likely change the leader; I expect Somchai to be forced out. Long live the king.

Since I enabled IPv6 on Postfix and ensured the DNS records are correct, we have been sending and receiving email with various IPv6-enabled sites. So far it is looking good, even the TLS encrypted sessions are working with IPv6. Next step is to make sure that some of the other mail related programs will correctly handle IPv6, such as postgrey and some of the RBL sites that are enabled.

I will post some regex that I put together for grepping ipv6 connections out of the maillogs. Currently I am in the Qantas Club using a shared computer and my flight is boarding for Wellington. Post more later.