Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:20:09 +0100 From: Torsten Zuehlsdorff <mailinglists@toco-domains.de> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Announcement: IPv6 promotion campaign Message-ID: <5655C399.8060106@toco-domains.de> In-Reply-To: <09C295B8-8AB3-4601-B0B9-7B41E28DAA07@FreeBSD.org> References: <5655B1CD.4050009@toco-domains.de> <09C295B8-8AB3-4601-B0B9-7B41E28DAA07@FreeBSD.org>
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Hello, >> FreeBSD supports IPv6 since 15 years and while IPv4 addresses running low, its quite annoying how often there is no IPv6 support for existing sites. >> >> I'm hit at a regularly basis by that lack of support and it happens to affect a greater number of the ports including some popular programs. >> >> For example rubygems.org misses IPv6 support, rendering more than 1.000 ports unfetchable and not buildable at an IPv6 only connection. Same is true for Firefox and Thunderbird. > >> Even codeload.github.com is not reachable via IPv6. > > They are aware of this and have been regularly contacted by various people from industry as well. rubygem.org closed multiple open requests tickets ;) If possible we find a solution for this denier. Maybe an IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel added to known ports as fallback? I could also provide a server as fallback serving the needed files. Lets discuss this later! >> LibreOffice for example is not buildable, because some of the dependencies are not fetchable. >> >> While this is of course not a problem of FreeBSD it hits me as FreeBSD user with my great numbers of IPv6 only jails ;) >> >> In the next weeks i will start an promotion campaign to reduce the lack of support. >> >> Therefore i will: >> - create a list of ports not fetchable through IPv6 >> - assembling a list of affected hosters >> - contact the projects and try to help them to add support >> >> If anybody is interested in help me with this task, feel free to contact me! :) > > Ich bin dabei :-) Wunderbar, du bekommst bald eine E-Mail von mir :) Greetings, Torsten
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