Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:05:07 -0500 From: James <james@towardex.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IPv6 for www.freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051104010507.GA52870@scylla.towardex.com> In-Reply-To: <43668CC8.3020805@FreeBSD.org> References: <43668CC8.3020805@FreeBSD.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 01:29:44PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > As I mentioned in my previous post, I have been using earthlink's IPv6 > experiment to get an IPv6 connection at home. I am therefore trying to use > it as much as possible to see what works, and what breaks. FreeBSD makes it > fairly easy to do that, but it's fairly hard to get to the web site over v6. > Admittedly there is a list of v6-capable mirrors on the front page, and > they work fairly well. However, I think it would be nice to pick one or two > of those sites and add the AAAA record to www.freebsd.org. > > I have been simulating this in my hosts file using the first US mirror site, > and haven't run into any problems yet. I think it would be a step in the > right direction for us to support v6 for our site "out of the box." > > Thoughts? > > Doug The Earthlink R&D IPv6 service uses OCCAID (www.occaid.org) for uplink service. If you are interested in finding options for getting a free v6 transit for freebsd.org (unless you already have one) feel free to contact me off-list. Thanks, -- James Jun Infrastructure and Technology Services TowardEX Technologies Office +1-617-459-4051 x179 | Mobile +1-978-394-2867 james@towardex.com | www.towardex.com
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20051104010507.GA52870>