Bug#678232: Support IPv6 dual-stack access for Debian's websites

[Guo Yixuan <culu.gyx@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 06/21/2012 11:18 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> On Thu Jun 21, 2012 at 22:46:23 +0800, Guo Yixuan wrote:
>> So the culprit for missing www.debian.org's AAAA is specific DNS servers
>> (quite strange ...).
> 
> it is not. you are asking a DNS server that itself sits in NA. May the
> following link will help you to understand:
> http://dsa.debian.org/dsablog/2009/06/Setting_up_GeoDNS_for_security.debian.org/
> 
> The blog post only speaks about security.debian.org, but the same
> applies to www.debian.org.

Thank you for providing this technical explanation. I still need to
learn more DNS/Bind.

>> I gathered some info about commonly used servers' ipv6 availability, (by
>> a script calling ping/ping6).
>>
>> ping/ping6 summary:
>> v4    v6    hostname
>> Yes   No    alioth.debian.org
>> Yes   No    git.debian.org
> I don't know anything about their IPv6 status.
> 
>> Yes   No    incoming.debian.org
>> Yes   No    planet.debian.org
>> Yes   No    search.debian.org
> We are in contact with the network owners of those machines and will
> hopefully see IPv6 at some point.
> 
>> Yes   No    wiki.debian.org
> That will change in very near future.

Glad to know this, too.

Regards,

Guo Yixuan