From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed Nov 25 14:25:58 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 2A34DA37055 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:25:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mx1.sbone.de (mx1.sbone.de [IPv6:2a01:4f8:130:3ffc::401:25]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx1.sbone.de", Issuer "SBone.DE" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DA0941591 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:25:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.sbone.de (mail.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:587]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D0E3D25D38A5; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:25:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from content-filter.sbone.de (content-filter.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:2742]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 72E37C7708F; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:25:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sbone.de Received: from mail.sbone.de ([IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:587]) by content-filter.sbone.de (content-filter.sbone.de [fde9:577b:c1a9:31::2013:2742]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pi4ghNWEwgB7; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:25:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:4420:cabc:c8ff:fe8b:4fe6] (orange-tun0-ula.sbone.de [IPv6:fde9:577b:c1a9:4420:cabc:c8ff:fe8b:4fe6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.sbone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8A9A1C76FDB; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:25:53 +0000 (UTC) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2104\)) Subject: Re: Announcement: IPv6 promotion campaign From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" In-Reply-To: <5655C399.8060106@toco-domains.de> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:25:52 +0000 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <5655B1CD.4050009@toco-domains.de> <09C295B8-8AB3-4601-B0B9-7B41E28DAA07@FreeBSD.org> <5655C399.8060106@toco-domains.de> To: Torsten Zuehlsdorff X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2104) 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 14:25:58 -0000 > On 25 Nov 2015, at 14:20 , Torsten Zuehlsdorff = 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. >>=20 >>> Even codeload.github.com is not reachable via IPv6. >>=20 >> They are aware of this and have been regularly contacted by various = people from industry as well. >=20 > rubygem.org closed multiple open requests tickets ;) >=20 > 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=