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From: James <james@towardex.com>
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Subject: Re: IPv6 for www.freebsd.org
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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,


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