On vendredi, 17 février 2017 23.46:05 h CET Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'd like to let you know that Marcus Rueckert aka darix and myself have been investing some time in the last couple days in an attempt to get download.opensuse.org handle IPv6 traffic a bit smarter.
It has been a long-standing issue that users connecting using IPv6 could not be assigned to any geographical location, resulting in mirrorbrain redirecting them all around the world.
After a couple of nicely spent evening analyzing/confirming the various geoip databases in use, Apache's way of dealing with it and bridging this all together, today we seem to have reached what was believed to be impossible:
download.opensuse.org knows in what country I am when connecting using an IPv6 address
Now, I myself am a very small subset of our total userbase out there, and as such this test is of course of limited value - yet, it is a step forward.
I'd like you to keep an eye out for potential changed / regressed behaviors when working with download.opensuse.org during the next few days/weeks and report anything inexplicable.
We are aware that we're not at the full level of IPv6 support that we would like to reach: unlike on IPv4, we cannot yet do AS and Prefix based matching of mirrors.
Thank you for your attention - and happy downloading Dominique
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