IPv6 CVS

Pegasus Mc cleaft ken at mthelicon.com
Thu Aug 7 19:48:46 UTC 2008


On Thursday 07 August 2008 19:47:31 David Malone wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:34:09PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
> > The problem is cvsupd - since it's written in Modula3 and doesn't
> > support IPv6 you have to use an inetd/netcat hack to accept IPv6
> > connections on the server. As mentioned in
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-July/086710.html
> > cvsup18.freebsd.org and cvsup4.ru.freebsd.org both accept IPv6
> > connections.
>
> cvsup.ie.freebsd.org also offers cvsup over IPv6:
>
> 	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2003-July/001983.html

Thanks David, 
	I just tried cvsup.ie.freebsd.org and it worked a treat as well..  I 
appreciate the information. 

> Amazingly, it was announced exactly 5 years to the day before the
> message about cvsup18 above.

Synchronisities...  Dont you just love them ;> 

	I thought about setting up a v6 cvsup server, if the community thought that 
another mirror would be useful. Don't know how that may be received, 
however.. Useful or just redundant? 

Peg


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