> On 25 Nov 2015, at 14:20 , Torsten Zuehlsdorff <mailingli...@toco-domains.de> > wrote: > > Hello, > >>> FreeBSD supports IPv6 since 15 years and while IPv4 addresses running low, >>> its quite annoying how often there is no IPv6 support for existing sites. >>> >>> I'm hit at a regularly basis by that lack of support and it happens to >>> affect a greater number of the ports including some popular programs. >>> >>> For example rubygems.org misses IPv6 support, rendering more than 1.000 >>> ports unfetchable and not buildable at an IPv6 only connection. Same is >>> true for Firefox and Thunderbird. >> >>> Even codeload.github.com is not reachable via IPv6. >> >> They are aware of this and have been regularly contacted by various people >> from industry as well. > > rubygem.org closed multiple open requests tickets ;) > > If possible we find a solution for this denier. Maybe an IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel > added to known ports as fallback? I could also provide a server as fallback > serving the needed files. Lets discuss this later!
Well, all official FreeBSD project hosted geo-dns served mirrors do support IPv6 so the fallback to one of those should always succeed if the distfile is there already. /bz _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
