From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 09:44:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0E6E106564A for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:44:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhay@meraka.csir.co.za) Received: from zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za (zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za [IPv6:2001:4200:7000:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A36E8FC1A for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:44:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhay@meraka.csir.co.za) Received: by zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za (Postfix, from userid 3973) id C92AA33CBB; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:44:45 +0200 (SAST) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:44:45 +0200 From: John Hay To: Garance A Drosihn Message-ID: <20080331094445.GA91042@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 and cvsup servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:44:57 -0000 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