Re: [gentoo-mirrors] IPv6-enabled rsync mirrors

[Jin-Shan Tseng]

Hi folks,

    ftp.twaren.net(a.k.a. rsync6.tw.gentoo.org) is also fully ipv6 enabled.

    It's a native link and we would like to be in the ipv6 rotation.

    Thanks !

Regards,
Sam

Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
> On 19-jul-2006, at 1:03, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> or better said former and not-yet colleagues, I was the administrator
>> of rsync17.de back in 2003 before the use of IPv6 in portage rsync
>> was eliminated by the change to sync twice to the same server (once
>> for timestamp, once for the actual sync), which moved the name
>> resolving from rsync to the portage code (which was IPv4-only).
>>
>> After 2.5 years and due to the help of many people (including several
>> Gentoo gurus^Wdevelopers) the necessary code has finally been added
>> to portage and is now available in >=sys-apps/portage-2.1.1_pre3-r1.
>> See the bug for yourself, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37124 .
>>
>> The reason I'm writing this mail is that in 2004 all AAAA records
>> were pulled from the rotations (since it wasn't supported by portage
>> anyway). What about adding IPv6 records to the rotation again (maybe
>> no more than three per hostname to allow it to fail gracefully in the
>> unexpected case that an IPv4-only box chooses IPv6 for sync)?
>>
>> I'm standing by with a fast machine on native GE to chime in if
>> needed. Who here would be able to provide _decent_ (that means no
>> crappy tunnelbrokers like HE.net, no transcontinental tunnels and
>> IMHO no 6to4, but a decent native link or low-latency tunnel with
>> enough available bandwidth) IPv6-enabled mirror for the rotations?
>> Please remember that if this is about pushing IPv6 usage having
>> mirrors with overall bad connection is actually the worst thing to do.
>
> The ftp.snt.utwente.nl (rsync2.nl.gentoo.org) mirror should already be
> fully ipv6 enabled.
> It's a native link and we'd love to be in the ipv6 rotation.
>
> DJ
>
> Trying "ftp.snt.utwente.nl"
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 22962
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;ftp.snt.utwente.nl.            IN      ANY
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> ftp.snt.utwente.nl.     86400   IN      CNAME   vlaai.snt.utwente.nl.
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> snt.utwente.nl.         86400   IN      NS      ns3.utwente.nl.
> snt.utwente.nl.         86400   IN      NS      ns1.utwente.nl.
> snt.utwente.nl.         86400   IN      NS      ns2.utwente.nl.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns1.utwente.nl.         86400   IN      A       130.89.1.2
> ns2.utwente.nl.         86400   IN      A       130.89.1.3
> ns3.utwente.nl.         86400   IN      A       192.87.17.19
>
> Received 158 bytes from 130.89.1.2#53 in 1 ms
>
> machine:~ hartman$ host -a vlaai.snt.utwente.nl
> Trying "vlaai.snt.utwente.nl"
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5996
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 6
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;vlaai.snt.utwente.nl.          IN      ANY
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> vlaai.snt.utwente.nl.   86400   IN      A       130.89.175.1
> vlaai.snt.utwente.nl.   86400   IN      MX      100 mx.utwente.nl.
> vlaai.snt.utwente.nl.   86400   IN      AAAA    2001:610:1908:8000::175:1
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> snt.utwente.nl.         86400   IN      NS      ns3.utwente.nl.
> snt.utwente.nl.         86400   IN      NS      ns1.utwente.nl.
> snt.utwente.nl.         86400   IN      NS      ns2.utwente.nl.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> mx.utwente.nl.          86400   IN      A       130.89.2.13
> mx.utwente.nl.          86400   IN      A       130.89.2.14
> mx.utwente.nl.          86400   IN      A       130.89.2.12
> ns1.utwente.nl.         86400   IN      A       130.89.1.2
> ns2.utwente.nl.         86400   IN      A       130.89.1.3
> ns3.utwente.nl.         86400   IN      A       192.87.17.19
>
> Received 251 bytes from 130.89.1.2#53 in 16 ms
>
>
> ====== RSYNC ipv6 connect =====
>
> hartman$ rsync -6 rsync://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/gentoo-portage
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> DJ
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