[CentOS-mirror] Some IPv6 mirrors not reachable by IPv6

Mon May 7 12:18:21 UTC 2012
Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com>

On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 04:30:02PM -0500, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Does that then imply that machines which do have an AAAA will not be
> used / served for A records ? ( or tested for that matter )

There are 2 components:

1) URLs handed to end users.  These are simply URLs, the client (yum,
   browser for download links, ...) does its own address resolution
   and decision as to which IPv[46] address to use.

2) The MM crawler.  It does its own address resolution (via
   urlgrabber), and doesn't try both IPv4 and IPv6 if both types of
   records are available.

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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist
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