Public bug reported:

security.ubuntu.com and most archive.ubuntu.com has no IPv6 support and
ipv6.security.ubuntu.com does not exist, so you can't install security
fixes to ubuntu systems which does only have an IPv6 connection.

Steps to reproduce:
1.) Check that you have IPv6:
$ ping6 ipv6.google.com
PING ipv6.google.com(fx-in-x68.1e100.net) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from fx-in-x68.1e100.net: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=9.87 ms
64 bytes from fx-in-x68.1e100.net: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=10.2 ms
^C
--- ipv6.google.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 9.876/10.067/10.259/0.216 ms

2.) Test IPv6 support on security.ubuntu.com:
$ ping6 security.ubuntu.com
unknown host

$ ping6 ipv6.security.ubuntu.com
unknown host

The Ubuntu repo and the Ubuntu security repo especially should have IPv6 
support.
Ubuntu does support ipv6 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IPv6) and is involved with it.

Debian has IPv6 already on their repos btw.:

$ ping6 security.debian.org
PING security.debian.org(wieck.debian.org) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from wieck.debian.org: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=29.1 ms
64 bytes from wieck.debian.org: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=30.1 ms

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: ipv6 security

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security.ubuntu.com has no IPv6 support
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493754
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