Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:44:45 +0200 From: John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 and cvsup servers Message-ID: <20080331094445.GA91042@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <p06240800c41624e8e526@[128.113.24.47]> References: <p06240800c41624e8e526@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:33:24AM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Some of my friends have been moving their machines into the world of > IPv6. It seems that the cvsup program is old enough that it doesn't > know about IPv6 (true?). So they went to use the csup program in > the base system, and while that seems to understand IPv6 just fine, > they couldn't seem to make a connection to any of the official cvsup > servers that they tried via IPv6. > > E.g: "It looks like cvsup4.freebsd.org is refusing connections > on ipv6 despite it having an AAAA record." > > Is this expected? Given that the servers are all using the cvsup > program, it wouldn't surprise me if they can't handle connections > from IPv6 hosts. But if that's the case, then why are there AAAA > records for the cvsup*.freebsd.org hostnames? > > (apologies if this was a dumb question, but I haven't done much with > IPv6) I use socat on cvsup.za.freebsd.org. Something like: /usr/local/bin/socat -ly TCP6-LISTEN:5999,fork,reuseaddr TCP4:127.0.0.1:5999 We have some ipv6-only networks and there I use the reverse to get cvsup to work over these nets. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org
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