Hi. On 23-10-22 15:47:45, Kastus Shchuka wrote: > On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 10:29:08PM +0200, Armin Jenewein wrote: > > Hi, > > > > as I'm almost 100% sure adding IPv6 connectivity to the openbsd.org > > host > > wouldn't introduce side-effects for IPv4 users: is there any reason > > openbsd.org still has no AAAA entry at the end of 2023? > > Why do you need it?
Because it's extremely inconvenient to have manually type in the name of a mirror that I know has an AAAA entry. The installer won't even be able to download the mirror list because of the reason I mentioned. It tries to talk to openbsd.org which obviously fails. So the reason is as simple as "Because 2^32 IP addresses are not sufficient for over 8 millian humans.". I see no point in making the life of IPv6-only attached users harder here. > > > > > This has likely be discussed in the past and OpenBSD does a good job > > for > > me on both servers and desktops running IPv6, but with IPv4 > > addresses > > becoming more and more expensive, I would love to have the option to > > deploy OpenBSD on IPv6-only hosts, even IPv6 only with NAT64 was no > > problem here - the installer defaults to do auto configuration for > > v4 > > only and by default doesn't even auto-configure v6, which surprised > > me, > > too, though. > > Nothing prevents you from installing ipv6-only hosts, just use mirrors > as installurl. That's simply harder as it needs to be. I'm convinced that the benefits of having AAAA entries outrule the disadvantages here - in fact I don't see any. > > Four out of six CDN mirrors listed on https://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html > have ipv6 addresses with appropriate DNS entries. > > -Kastus > I'm not even able to access the list of CDN mirrors on an IPv6-only hosts to find these - that makes not much sense to me. ~ Armin -- ,_^_. \- -/ \_/ \ Armin Jenewein | O o | <[email protected]> |_ < ) 3 ) / \ / /-__,__-\
