From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed Nov 25 14:20:13 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 779E8A36F28 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:20:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailinglists@toco-domains.de) Received: from toco-domains.de (mail.toco-domains.de [176.9.39.170]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 346111230; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:20:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailinglists@toco-domains.de) Received: from [0.0.0.0] (mail.toco-domains.de [IPv6:2a01:4f8:150:50a5::6]) by toco-domains.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id BC2E91B22056; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:20:10 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: Announcement: IPv6 promotion campaign To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" References: <5655B1CD.4050009@toco-domains.de> <09C295B8-8AB3-4601-B0B9-7B41E28DAA07@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Torsten Zuehlsdorff Message-ID: <5655C399.8060106@toco-domains.de> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:20:09 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <09C295B8-8AB3-4601-B0B9-7B41E28DAA07@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:20:13 -0000 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! >> LibreOffice for example is not buildable, because some of the dependencies are not fetchable. >> >> While this is of course not a problem of FreeBSD it hits me as FreeBSD user with my great numbers of IPv6 only jails ;) >> >> In the next weeks i will start an promotion campaign to reduce the lack of support. >> >> 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 >> >> If anybody is interested in help me with this task, feel free to contact me! :) > > Ich bin dabei :-) Wunderbar, du bekommst bald eine E-Mail von mir :) Greetings, Torsten