Certification in ipv6.he.net have daily tests that give on 1 an extra point after passing all the basic tests. They have to be done 100 such tests for maximum score 😐 . The tests themselves are completely trivial
- Traceroute
- DIG AAAA
- DIG PTR
- Ping
- Whois
The most unpleasant thing is that the tests themselves must be unique, ie you can't use one domain twice 🙂 Besides everything else, they are a bit annoying 🙄 – no challenge just slapping 5 commands in the cli and copy / paste of the result on their site.
As a lazy and administrator who likes to make his life easier, I quickly scratched an elementary bash that does the dirty work for me.
#!/bin/bash hr() { local start=$'\e(0' end=$'\e(B' line='qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq' local cols=${COLUMNS:-$(tput cols)} while ((${#line} < cols)); do line+="$line"; done printf '%s%s%s\n' "$start" "${line:0:cols}" "$end" } if [ -z $1 ] then echo "Append domain afert the script name!!!" exit fi IP=$(dig $1 AAAA +short) if [ -z ${IP} ] then echo "$1 dont have valid IPv6 record" else reset traceroute6 $1 hr dig $1 AAAA hr dig -x ${IP} hr ping6 -c3 ${IP} hr whois ${IP} fi
As you can see, the script is insanely simple. You submit a domain and then validate it to see if there is an IPv6 record and if so, perform daily tests for it. The coolest part – function hr which prints a line across the entire width of the screen is taken from bash-hackers.