Announcing biggish FTP archive reachable via IPv6

[William F. Maton]

On 11 May 2000, Simon Leinen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> what's the IPv6 address of that box?

Sigh.  Forgot "make reload"

bear            IN      AAAA    2001:410:401:8::2

> -- 
> Simon.
> 
> $ dig aaaa bear.dgim.crc.ca
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> aaaa bear.dgim.crc.ca 
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;;      bear.dgim.crc.ca, type = AAAA, class = IN
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> dgim.crc.ca.            2h59m25s IN SOA  ns1.crc.ca. dns.crc.ca. (
>                                         2000051002      ; serial
>                                         1H              ; refresh
>                                         15M             ; retry
>                                         1W              ; expiry
>                                         8H )            ; minimum
> 
> 
> ;; Total query time: 12 msec
> ;; FROM: babar to SERVER: default -- 130.59.1.30
> ;; WHEN: Thu May 11 18:16:40 2000
> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 34  rcvd: 89
> 
> > Greetings,
> 
> > 	Could folks kindly try aiming their IPv6-enabled clients at
> > bear.dgim.crc.ca, which is a Solaris 8 box housing ftp.crc.ca's FTP
> > archive, and let me know if any of you can successfully download stuff?
> > This is another case where I know if *I* use it, it always works. :-)
> > But I'm paranoid, so I'm asking.  Also, if folks like to mirror any part
> > of the archive _via IPv6_ it would be most appreciated (and of course,
> > you're welcome to do so), as I'd like to get some numbers out of the
> > router and box.
> 
> > Thanks in advance and enjoy!
> 
> > wfms
> 



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