Hi Matt, On 05/04/2012 11:17 PM, Matt Domsch wrote: > can't abide. CentOS in particular has plenty of mirrors worldwide, > far more than many projects, with plenty of competent sysadmins. > Don't create more work for yourself to manage a (transient) list of > mirrors that have functional IPv6. Right, not longer term - but this was more of a stop-gap arrangement to get something going while we wait for MM to come online, longer term we would not want to manage something like this manually anyway. > The MirrorManager crawler would, through using urlgrabber, try to > establish an IPv6 connection to a mirror with an AAAA record first. I > don't know if it would fall back to try A records if IPv6 fails, but I > presume not. Such failing AAAA records would then cause the crawler > to mark the mirror as not up-to-date, and automatically drop them from > the mirrorlist until such a time their AAAA record actually works. I > say "probably" here only because Fedora's infrastructure where this > runs for them doesn't have IPv6 connectivity yet, so I haven't tested > it in production use. Does that then imply that machines which do have an AAAA will not be used / served for A records ? ( or tested for that matter ) -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc