Hey, folks. If you follow the trac ticket notifications on test@ you may have noticed this already, but I know it's easy to tune those out, and I'm CCing devel@ so people following that list know about this too.
We're planning a Fedora IPv6 Test Day to coincide with World IPv6 Day on June 8. This has been kicked off by some folks inside Red Hat whose job it is to understand IPv6 (those poor, poor kids), so thanks to Linda and her team for bringing it to the Fedora community. We have a trac ticket for co-ordinating the event here:
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/192
and the Wiki page for it is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Day:2011-06-08_IPv6
it would be really good if people can pencil in this event on their calendars so we can get some testing of Fedora 15's IPv6 preparedness, and it would also be great if those who understand what the hell they're doing with IPv6 could check over the Wiki page for accuracy and completeness. Finally it would also help if people who don't understand what the hell they're doing with IPv6 - like me! - could try and follow the instructions, and let us know - via this thread, or the trac ticket - if they struggle or find something unclear or don't seem to be able to make it work as intended, so we can improve the instructions. I've already noted, for example, that it's not particularly clear what you should do if you're using a router - whether to try and set the tunnel up on the router, or whether you can just do it on one of the machines behind the router.
Thanks everyone!
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:28, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
Hey, folks. If you follow the trac ticket notifications on test@ you may have noticed this already, but I know it's easy to tune those out, and I'm CCing devel@ so people following that list know about this too.
We're planning a Fedora IPv6 Test Day to coincide with World IPv6 Day on June 8. This has been kicked off by some folks inside Red Hat whose job it is to understand IPv6 (those poor, poor kids), so thanks to Linda and her team for bringing it to the Fedora community. We have a trac ticket for co-ordinating the event here:
Ok we hopefully will have this fixed by then, but the ipv6 DNS for fedoraproject.org will be broken due to IP changes and the fact that it takes a while to update the .org DNS tables. Please be patient :).
On 05/31/2011 01:28 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
it would also be great if those who understand what the hell they're doing with IPv6 could check over the Wiki page for accuracy and completeness.
There don't seem to be any formal test cases presently. Are there some in drafts that I don't see listed?
For the record, my IPv6 usage case is as follows: -Fedora server (radvd) - IPv4 ISP, using the BGP 6to4 tunnel (IPv4: 192.88.99.1, IPv6: 2002 prefix) | - clients (NetworkManager set to "automatic" for IPv6)
When I first set this up a few years ago I had issues getting to fedoraproject.org via IPv6. These problems magically vanished over a period of time (as Internet routers slowly propagate 6to4 addresses). Some sites worked, but others (such as fp.o) did not. These days the 6to4 system seems to be much better and I have not had any issues lately.
It should be noted that getaddrinfo() defaults to true IPv6, IPv4, then 6to4 in resolving DNS names. If I try to visit a site that has A and AAAA records, Firefox will display the A site.
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 14:34 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
On 05/31/2011 01:28 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
it would also be great if those who understand what the hell they're doing with IPv6 could check over the Wiki page for accuracy and completeness.
There don't seem to be any formal test cases presently. Are there some in drafts that I don't see listed?
Correct, there aren't any yet. I think we could turn the current bulletpoint list of 'things to test' into three simple test cases. Obviously if people can think of other things to test, we can add some more...
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
it would be really good if people can pencil in this event on their calendars so we can get some testing of Fedora 15's IPv6 preparedness, and it would also be great if those who understand what the hell they're doing with IPv6 could check over the Wiki page for accuracy and completeness.
Is there an IPv6 tracker bug? There is for instance an issue with iptables filtering and DHCPv6 and maybe more of those:
RHBZ #591630 DHCPv6 responses are not allowed by default ip6tables ruleset RHBZ #552099 system-config-firewall has no simple mechanism to enable IPv6 DHCPv6 client RHBZ #656334 Default Firewall blocking DHCPv6
(They all seem to be about the same problem...)
Finally it would also help if people who don't understand what the hell they're doing with IPv6 - like me! - could try and follow the instructions, and let us know - via this thread, or the trac ticket
This [1] may be of some help as a high level overview of how to deploy IPv6 on a LAN and various operating system IPv6 compatibilities. Fedora is doing quite well! The document is not a configuration help, but it might make it clear how everything fits together and brush you up on your IPv6 :-)
Regards, François
[1] http://www.surfnet.nl/Documents/IPv6%20Deployment%20In%20Local%20Area%20Netw...
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