IPv6 on update2.freebsd.org

[Dennis Radford]

On 7/30/2021 8:17 PM, Philip Paeps wrote:
>
> On 2021-07-31 07:40:19 (+0800), Dennis Radford wrote:
>
>     On 7/30/2021 1:49 AM, Philip Paeps wrote:
>>     On 2021-07-30 03:56:11 (+0800), Dennis Radford wrote:
>>>     To whom it may concern,
>>>
>>>     I just wanted to notify to proper individual(s) that IPv6
>>>     connectivity to
>>>
>>>     Name:   update2.freebsd.org
>>>     Address: 2620:11c:5001:1099:1337::117
>>>
>>>     appears to have stopped working.
>>>
>>>     Long delays running freebsd-update and does not respond to ping6
>>>     either. IPv6 on update.freebsd.org appears to be working
>>>     normally. Tested from 2 separate and dissimilar networks.
>>
>>     Thanks for the report.  As far as I can tell, IPv6 is working
>>     fine on this mirror.  Can you please share a traceroute?
>>
>>     Graham has helpfully created a bug for this.  I've assigned it to
>>     clusteradm now.
>>
>>     https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=257498
>>
>>     Thanks.
>>
>>     Philip
>>
>     Sure thing.
>
>       traceroute6 to update2.freebsd.org (2620:11c:5001:1099:1337::117) from 2002:b840:df6b:1::11, 64 hops max, 28 byte packets
>       1  2002:b840:df6b:1:da47:32ff:fe6c:75a8  0.345 ms  0.180 ms  0.150 ms
>       2  2002:c058:6301::1  28.439 ms  26.260 ms  26.769 ms
>       3  10gigabitethernet1-14.core1.sea1.he.net  26.981 ms  27.091 ms  27.256 ms
>       4  v6-six2.metapeer.com  27.065 ms  27.316 ms  27.051 ms
>       5  2620:11c:5001:982::  36.566 ms  33.899 ms  33.846 ms
>       6  * * *
>       7  * * *
>
>     Same results with traceroute6 on second separate network.
>
>     - Dennis
>
>
> Looks like metapeer simply doesn't have a route to 6to4 addresses. It 
> can get to your IPv4 address just fine though.
>
> I don't know if this can be fixed. I will ask.
>
> Are you using 6to4 on purpose because you don't have native IPv6, or 
> is there some configuration causing you to prefer 6to4 over native?
>
> Philip
>
> -- 
> Philip Paeps
> Senior Reality Engineer
> Alternative Enterprises
>
Unfortunately my ISP does not provide native IPv6 for my particular 
modem/Internet service level, so I must use 6to4 tunnel(s) for IPv6 
connectivity.

Thank you for looking into if it will be possible to fix this issue.

- Dennis