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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