bosixnet_daemon(1)

📦 version 2.0, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 bosixnet_daemon — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the General Commands Manual section 1, and the star of the show is bosixnet_daemon. she's a whole vibe. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

bosixnet_daemon — a shell script that, on a lil schedule, sends info about your current IPv6 address out to remote servers, and also updates your local /etc/hosts file based on the data it gets back from those same remote servers. the expectation is that bosixnet-webui is running on those remote servers, but honestly? not mandatory. it's giving flexible 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bosixnet_daemon [options]

that's it. that's the whole thing. no positional args, no drama, just options. iconic.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

BOSixNet = Build Own IPv6 Network. like, the name literally spells it out, no cap 🔥

so here's the situation this project exists for: you've got a whole bunch of computers to administer, they're scattered across different networks, and they're connected through NAT. that's the nightmare scenario, and BOSixNet is the bestie who shows up for it.

in most cases you could just install miredo, gogoc, or literally any other tunnel broker's software and boom, those computers become reachable via IPv6 addresses. easy enough, right? but BOSixNet is the extra step on top: it's a collection of tools for automatically updating the list of such hosts. so you're not out here hand-maintaining a list like it's 2009. periodt 🌸

✨ OPTIONS ✨

generic options, nothing fancy, just the classics:

  • -h, --help — shows the help and dips out. short and sweet, exactly what you want 😌
  • -v, --version — shows the version and then exits. tell me who you are king 👑

✨ FILES ✨

  • /etc/bosixnet/ — the directory where all the configuration files live. that's where the config files are. all of them. together. as a treat 🎀

✨ DOCUMENTATION ✨

basic information lives right here:

https://github.com/tehnick/bosixnet/blob/master/README

go read it, i'll wait 💜

✨ BUG REPORTS ✨

found a bug? not you being a detective 🔍 please report it right here:

https://github.com/tehnick/bosixnet/issues

they wanna hear about it fr fr, don't be shy.

no notes, no extra lore, everything above is the whole page — every option, every path, every link, all of it. we keep the facts, we just made them cute 💖

and that's a wrap, bestie! this lil page came from the General Commands Manual and was dated 19 Oct 2016. thanks for reading the whole thing, you're the main character of documentation consumption. slay, mwah 🦋✨💅

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