Announcement: IPv6 promotion campaign

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

> On 25 Nov 2015, at 14:20 , Torsten Zuehlsdorff <mailinglists at toco-domains.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>>> FreeBSD supports IPv6 since 15 years and while IPv4 addresses running low, its quite annoying how often there is no IPv6 support for existing sites.
>>> 
>>> I'm hit at a regularly basis by that lack of support and it happens to affect a greater number of the ports including some popular programs.
>>> 
>>> For example rubygems.org misses IPv6 support, rendering more than 1.000 ports unfetchable and not buildable at an IPv6 only connection. Same is true for Firefox and Thunderbird.
>> 
>>> Even codeload.github.com is not reachable via IPv6.
>> 
>> They are aware of this and have been regularly contacted by various people from industry as well.
> 
> rubygem.org closed multiple open requests tickets ;)
> 
> If possible we find a solution for this denier. Maybe an IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel added to known ports as fallback? I could also provide a server as fallback serving the needed files. Lets discuss this later!

Well, all official FreeBSD project hosted geo-dns served mirrors do support IPv6 so the fallback to one of those should always succeed if the distfile is there already.

/bz