RE: GeoDNS for www.php.net live this week!
| From: | Seamus Ryan | Date: | Wed, 17 Jun 2015 02:18:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: GeoDNS for www.php.net live this week! | ||
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Rightio, figured that would be the case :-)
To all mirror operators, get some IPv6 connectivity up and running!!!!
- Seamus
-----Original Message-----
From: Hannes Magnusson [mailto:hannes.magnusson@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 17 June 2015 2:59 AM
To: Seamus Ryan
Cc: PHP Systems; PHP Webmaster ML; PHP Mirrors ML
Subject: Re: GeoDNS for www.php.net live this week!
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Seamus Ryan <s.ryan@uber.com.au> wrote:
> Great stuff, nice work all.
>
> Quick question though regarding DNS records. I can see we are currently only doing this
> (GeoDNS) for v4 addresses, with all IPv6 data being sent to php-web2.php.net (2a02:cb41::7).
>
> Any plans to change this? Or does the lack of IPv6 mirrors (I count 19?) mean it isn't
> quite feasible just yet?
I'm sure more mirrors could enable IPv6 and we could do this for IPv6 too. There just
hasn't been any requests/demand for it - and things like this takes incredible amount of time
to coordinate - a time that is difficult to get volunteers for (this release took roughly
18months...).
-Hannes