> On 25 Nov 2015, at 13:04 , Torsten Zuehlsdorff <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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. > 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 :-) Bjoern _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
