Hi Everyone,

It gives me great pleasure to announce that mirrorlist.centos.org is now available on ipv6; in addition to the existing ipv4 functionality.

This is a full featured service, using geoip on the server end to hand out local-to-user IPv6 mirrors. Every url handed out is verified at regular intervals and only the freshest ones used.

Our IPv6 mirror network is presently just under 150 hosts spread over 32 different countries - with a large bias towards the USA and Western Europe. We would love to bring on more machines to get better coverage around the world. In the 30 minutes since we turned it on, we are serving just over 8 requests per second over ipv6. So while its not huge, its a significant number and one that we imagine will only grow.

I would like to thank Anssi Johansson ( http://twitter.com/avij ), member of the CentOS QA team and resident IPv6 champion, for his efforts in pushing for this service. Then helping build it and test it.

Note that we do not have DNS on ipv6, so we still rely on the user end hosts having an upstream dual stacke dns resolver enroute to ns*.centos.org - we will try and fix this in the near future.

If you have any feedback, or run into issues, please come find us on irc at #centos-devel@irc.freenode.net or open an issue report at http://bugs.centos.org/

Enjoy the v6 goodness,