On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 06:41:00PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > There is a request in the bts [1] to show which mirrors are reachable > over IPv6. I've already added a new field "IPv6" to the mirror > masterlist [2], but Simon Paillard suggested on irc that that might not > be the best solution, because there could, in principle, also be > ipv6-only mirrors, and because people might be relying on the existing > format of the mirrorlist. > > Does anyone have a suggestion on how to best solve this? Is it ok to > add extra field to the master mirrorlist and the mirror lists on the > website?
I see two solutions : * A third possible value 'only' could describe the case when the mirror is IPv6 only : IPv6: yes|no|only It assumes that : 1/ IPv4 and IPv6 will be the only network layer in internet :) 2/ if IPv4 and IPv6 are both available, methods available (http, ftp, rsync) and their path are the same on both IP stacks. * Otherwise, if we cannot assume that 2/ is always true, we can add a '-v6' suffix to each fields like : Archive-(ftp|http|rsync)-v6: This last solution doesn't assume anything and is more flexible, but the file size will increase with IPv6 spread :) Regards, -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
