Add IPv6 support to sites
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu-website-content |
Fix Committed
|
Wishlist
|
Peter Mahnke |
Bug Description
It's likely already on your radar, but I thought I would report a public bug anyway. IPv6 support is already quite important for the Asia-Pacific region, and Europe is next.
If possible, it would be great publicity if Ubuntu.com be ready by May 30th, so you can be part of worldipv6launch.org (actual launch on June 6th). If not, another site like ubuntuforums.
Actual requirements:
Web servers have public IPv6 address
AAAA records exist pointing to them
IPv6 Tester:
http://
Currently as far as "distros" (top 15) go only fedoraproject.com and freebsd.org currently work via IPv6.
Changed in ubuntu-website: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
affects: | ubuntu-website → ubuntu-website-content |
Changed in ubuntu-website-content: | |
assignee: | nobody → Peter Mahnke (peterm-ubuntu) |
Changed in ubuntu-website-content: | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Other distros: debian.org is also listed at worldipv6launch.org as going live on IPv6 by June 6.
To be live for IPv6-only sites, you'll also need to have at least one of your DNS servers live on IPv6 and .canonical. com,
with an AAAA record for that address. Since the DNS servers for ubuntu.com are ns{123]
and canonical.com is also served by the same three name servers, you'll also have to add a glue record
in .com that gives the AAAA address(es) of your name servers. (Otherwise, IPv6-only clients who look
up ubuntu.com will be unable to look up e.g. ns1.canonical.com since they'd have no accessible path from .com
to ns1.canonical.com.) You add the glue records at your DNS registrar.
It would be particularly useful if the software update mirrors worked from IPv6-only sites, since otherwise,
machines on IPv6-only networks won't get security updates.