Ubuntu
update-manager package

  1. Bug #241305
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 241305

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Sander Steffann (sander-steffann) wrote :

This issue has been reported over 4 years ago, and has become a serious real-life problem for organisations. IANA (global supply) ran out of IPv4 addresses in February 2011. Shortly after that APNIC (Asia-Pacific supply) ran out. In September 2012 RIPE NCC (Europe/Middle-East/parts of Asia) ran out of IPv4 addresses.

Being able to run an IPv6-only network is increasingly important. Sure, hacks like NAT64/DNS64 exist. They form performance bottlenecks and single-points-of-failure in networks. Having native IPv6 support on an important service like security.ubuntu.com is important. Relying on 3rd party NAT64 boxes can even be a security risk (they would be the perfect place to do man-in-the-middle attacks).

The Canonical Sysadmins and the Ubuntu Security Team are notified of this issue, so I hope they take action as soon as possible. This is something that should have been fixed last year.