IPv6 for country mirrors

[Jonathan Sélea]

Hi!
This might not be an answer to the question, but maybe a solution for your problem atleast.

Have you tried using apt-cacher-ng for you environment and proxy all the apt traffic via that server?

Regards / Jonathan


On May 3, 2020 3:56:25 PM GMT+02:00, Michael Hock <hook1988 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I hope this is the right place to discuss this.
>I'm responsible for a couple of hundred servers which run ubuntu server
>16.04/18.04/20.04. Also there are many virtual machines running, including
>databases, webservers, monitoring, ... but most of them only have IPv6
>connectivity to the public internet. As all of you might know, for leased
>IPv4 addresses you usually have to pay some money and for many (internal)
>services IPv4 is just not needed any more.
>
>So the problem here is, most of the country specific ubuntu mirrors are not
>IPv6 enabled. So what are we doing? In our head location we use IPv4 NAT
>(country mirror not providing IPv6 there), in remote locations "just use
>the US mirror, it has IPv6".
>
>Would it be possible to provide sort of a fallback IPv6 address for all the
>country specific mirrors, so it would at least work if there is only IPv6
>connectivity to the public internet?
>Reaching out to individual mirror operators was not successful (tried to
>contact a few, they're not seeing it in their responsibility to provide
>IPv6 connectivity to their mirrors).
>
>I would provide a couple of IPv6 only mirrors for some locations by myself,
>but of course it's impossible for me to provide mirrors for every country.
>So I hope there are more people willing to either upgrade their current
>mirrors to also provide IPv6, or to set up additional (IPv6 only) mirrors
>which are then added as DNS AAAA records to existing country specific
>mirrors.
>
>Looking forward to hear your opinion on this.
>
>Best regards,
>Michael Hock

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