Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:14:09 +0000 From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org> To: Torsten Zuehlsdorff <mailinglists@toco-domains.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Announcement: IPv6 promotion campaign Message-ID: <09C295B8-8AB3-4601-B0B9-7B41E28DAA07@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5655B1CD.4050009@toco-domains.de> References: <5655B1CD.4050009@toco-domains.de>
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> On 25 Nov 2015, at 13:04 , Torsten Zuehlsdorff = <mailinglists@toco-domains.de> wrote: >=20 > Hello, >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. > LibreOffice for example is not buildable, because some of the = dependencies are not fetchable. >=20 > While this is of course not a problem of FreeBSD it hits me as FreeBSD = user with my great numbers of IPv6 only jails ;) >=20 > In the next weeks i will start an promotion campaign to reduce the = lack of support. >=20 > Therefore i will: > - create a list of ports not fetchable through IPv6 > - assembling a list of affected hosters > - contact the projects and try to help them to add support >=20 > If anybody is interested in help me with this task, feel free to = contact me! :) Ich bin dabei :-) Bjoern
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