Re: IPv6 adoption
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, John Galt wrote:
>
> > What's the point of installing a shiny new toy like IPv6 if you can't get
> > some instant gratification from it by connecting to an IPv6
> > site? Seriously, a IPv6-only mirror of both ftp.d.o and www.d.o might be
>
> Lully.debian.org has a full IPv6 mirror of the ftp site, except I haven't
> been able to secure a proper tunnel for it (anyone know of a solid
> backbone tunnel broker in the US let me know..), I will be trying to drop
> tunnels into other mirror locations as I can..
>
> CRC.ca is *supposed* to have a mirror on their IPv6 drop but its IPv6
> presence doesn't seem to be super stable yet :|
Hooo haaaa! We just upgraded to a newer Cisco IOS, which caused us some
BGP+ grief. Right now things seem genki (OK). In fact, ftp.ipv6.crc.ca
is multihomed:
ftp IN AAAA 2001:410:401:C::2
IN AAAA 3ffe:3700:1f00:fc83::2
Via CA*Net 3, directly by tunnel to the 6Tap in Chicago and via a tunnel
to Qwest. So what's the dark lining in this silver cloud? You can't
connect via FTP using IPv6! You need to use augustus.dgim.crc.ca for
that, and I'm running that machine with Solaris 8. The only reason? The
lack of a reliable port of *any* FTP daemon (with features like wu-ftpd)
was the reason why our linux-based IPv6! (OK guys, is that a hint or
what! :-) )
In short, I'm almost there, but not quite.....
> Perhaps when VA is running potato a tunnel can be put there, I have talked
> to the VA admins about them getting a tunnel for their site but they have
> better things to do :>
>
> IMHO it is much better to have a full archive on IPv6 than just a couple
> of packges..
I agree, and I'd be happy to mirror a "debian-ipv6" distro - provided
someone can port wu-ftpd-2.6.1 or proftpd-1.2 to IPv6. (BTW, I'm running
with glibc 2.1.3 and linux 2.2.16).
> Jason
wfms
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