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

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

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
                 Welcome to the ftp.snt.utwente.nl archive.
This service is provided to you by:

Studenten Net Twente (SNT)    http://www.snt.utwente.nl/
the University of Twente      http://www.utwente.nl/

This system may be used 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

All transfers are logged with your hostname and email address.
If you don't like this policy, disconnect now!

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drwxr-xr-x      155648 2006/09/01 17:00:01 .
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kruimel.snt.utwente.nl
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2006/07/04 06:36:06 app-accessibility
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2006/09/01 16:06:34 app-admin
drwxr-xr-x          64 2006/02/17 23:05:24 app-antivirus
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2006/09/01 16:06:34 app-arch
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2006/09/01 16:06:34 app-backup
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2006/09/01 16:06:34 app-benchmarks
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2006/09/01 16:06:34 app-cdr
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2006/09/01 16:06:34 app-crypt
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2006/09/01 16:06:34 app-dicts
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2006/09/01 16:06:34 app-doc
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2006/09/01 16:06:34 app-editors
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2006/09/01 16:06:34 app-emacs
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2006/09/01 16:06:34 app-emulation
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2006/09/01 16:06:34 app-forensics


DJ
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