ubuntu-mirrors Digest, Vol 109, Issue 4

[Vivien GUEANT - LaFibre.info]

Hi Petar,

In my suggestion, IPv6 is a prerequisite to be "country mirror", but 
IPv4 also: It is not a question of stopping IPv4, but of offering both: 
IPv4 + IPv6 (dual stack).

For your case, one solution could be to offer IPv6 connectivity via 
another server in Serbia or outside Serbia. Concretely, if you wish, my 
French server can host IPv6 for your mirror: Concretely add a DNS 
record: AAAA 2001:860:f70a::2 on on174027.ftn.uns.ac.rs

This allows your mirror to continue serving IPv4 clients while allowing 
servers that only have IPv6 to be able to access updates.

Cheers,
Vivien

Note: If you want to use my server for IPv6, I must first configure your 
domain name on my server.

Le 14/05/2020 à 10:56, Petar Marić a écrit :
> Hi Vivien,
>
> I'm managing the official country level mirrors in Serbia for CTAN 
> (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network), Ubuntu, Arch Linux, MariaDB, 
> CentOS, Debian and MX Linux.
>
> I'd like to start by saying that not all of us have the option of 
> having IPv6 connectivity to our servers (academic network in my case). 
> Furthermore https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html shows 
> that IPv6 has less than 30% world penetration, and only about 0.02% in 
> Serbia (similar to Croatia AFAIK).
>
> > The absence of IPv6 is blocking for servers that no longer have IPv4 
> connectivity,
>
> I understand your concern, but what about the *Desktop* users that 
> predominately still don't have IPv6 access - like the 99.98% of people 
> in my country?
>
> If your proposal is accepted, and becomes a hard requirement for 
> mirrors, I'll be forced to retire my 5 year old mirror.
>
> Cheers,


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