Is there any cvsup site support ipv6

[Matthew Seaman]

Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On May 26, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Xiaobo Zhu wrote:
>> would any one please tell me is there any cvsup site support ipv6, and 
>> sites
>> close to china are more preferred.
> 
> I'm not sure why one would prefer IPv6 only, but yes:
> 
> % dig -t aaaa cvsup5.cn.freebsd.org
> ; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> -t aaaa cvsup5.cn.freebsd.org
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1524
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;cvsup5.cn.freebsd.org.        IN    AAAA
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> cvsup5.cn.freebsd.org.    0    IN    CNAME    cvsup-master.cn.freebsd.org.
> cvsup-master.cn.freebsd.org. 0    IN    CNAME    tarsier.delphij.net.
> tarsier.delphij.net.    86400    IN    AAAA    2001:470:1f03:2c9::2
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> delphij.net.        86387    IN    NS    ns-bj.delphij.net.
> delphij.net.        86387    IN    NS    ns-tw.delphij.net.
> delphij.net.        86387    IN    NS    ns-sh.delphij.net.
> 
> ;; Query time: 205 msec
> ;; SERVER: 205.171.3.65#53(205.171.3.65)
> ;; WHEN: Mon May 26 09:06:25 2008
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 187
> 
> You might find the sysutils/fastest_cvsup port helpful...

The server might have IPv6 connectivity but does it provide IPv6 access
to  cvsup?  There's apparently no support in cvsupd for IPv6 (some sort
of modula3 bug I heard).  You have to play games with inetd(8) or 
do tricky firewall redirect stuff to make cvsup available via IPv6.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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