Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:10:46 +0100 (CET) From: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> To: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 FTP mirror Message-ID: <20021113160431.V201-100000@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <200211130920.14626.will@csociety.org>
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Will Andrews wrote: > On Wednesday 13 November 2002 07:43, Lukas Ertl wrote: > > is there a need for an IPv6 FTP mirror? The server would be > > located in Vienna, Austria. Due to some space restrictions I > > probably won't be able to carry the whole fileset, and the > > IPv6 connection is still a little experimental, but I'd like > > to give it a try. > > Well now, that depends on how you define "need". The more > FreeBSD services are available on IPv6, the more users might use > it to access them. It could only be a good thing. The host would be also accessible via IPv4 of course. > You may not see much traffic, however. I know, this whole IPv6-stuff is still experimental, but if the services are there people might consider using it. > 6Bone transit is typically quite poor. This host is in 6net, not in 6bone, if I got that right from our networkers. It is connected with an 100Mbit interface, but I don't know if I can get that performance over IPv6 over long distances. > The IPv6 Internet, as I understand it, is well under way in Europe and > Asia, however. This surely has something to do with the fact that IPv4 addresses are running out here and in Asia more quickly than in the US. Ok, so I try to setup that mirror. regards, le --=20 Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX-Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 der Universit=E4t Wien http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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