[CentOS-devel] ipv6 in mirrorlist

Thu Oct 1 06:13:13 UTC 2009
David Hrbáč <hrbac.conf at seznam.cz>

Karanbir Singh napsal(a):
> hi,
> 
> So, running a natively ipv6 machine on CentOS comes with the problem 
> that there are no published ipv6 mirrors in our mirrorlist's - we know 
> about a few ipv6 mirrors, and it should be possible to extend our 
> testing stuff to cover them.
> 
> Whats the best way to handle this situation ? Am I the only one running 
> native ipv6 at the moment.... is there someway we can gauge what the 
> use-case-density for AAAA mirrorlist.centos.org is at the moment ?
> 
> should we do the dns record, vhost a static list if we must, of a few 
> ipv6's and see what the hit-rate is ?
> 
> - KB

Karanbir,
definitely IPV6 is the must. I can help with testing, since we have own
IPV6 subnet. Maybe I'm wrong but IPV6/IPV4 enabled machines are going to
try IPV6 mirrors first. So I'm not sure about the hit-rate precision.
Regards,
David Hrbáč