IPv6
Tomas Carnecky
Please make the site reachable through IPv6. Thanks.
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Please make the site reachable through IPv6. Thanks.
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Support Staff 2 Posted by Eric Hodel on 21 Apr, 2012 12:05 AM
While making http://rubygems.org use IPv6 may be possible in the short term, RubyGems uses mirror sites to serve up gems including Amazon AWS. At this time it's not possible to have end-to-end IPv6 for downloading gems.
PS: I wish we could bring IPv6 quickly, I've had an IPv6 tunnel at home for nearly nine years now.
Eric Hodel closed this discussion on 21 Apr, 2012 12:05 AM.
Tomas Carnecky re-opened this discussion on 21 Apr, 2012 01:46 PM
3 Posted by Tomas Carnecky on 21 Apr, 2012 01:46 PM
Ok. In the meantime people can change the source in their gemrc to: http://rubygems.org.sixxs.org. Good thing that gem/rubygems doesn't use SSL, otherwise this hack wouldn't work.
4 Posted by Carsten Zimmermann on 14 Jun, 2012 06:55 AM
I had to resort to hacky workarounds when I recently set up a IPv6-only box. My hosting provider supports native IPv6 - is it of any help if I offer a v6 mirror? The way I see it, rubygems.org currently doesn't have AAAA records; by adding one (and pointing it to an IPV6 enabled machine) we could transparently add IPv6.
DISCLAIMER: I haven't done any read-up on how rubygems does its mirroring.
Support Staff 5 Posted by Eric Hodel on 14 Jun, 2012 07:30 AM
Re-closing, see my comment above.
Eric Hodel closed this discussion on 14 Jun, 2012 07:30 AM.