1077267 - more apparent ipv6 support on IRC

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: Infrastructure: IRC, task)

Description

[Greg Cox [:gcox]]

"IPv6 support" was listed as a feature of the new IRC network.  And it has it.  BUT:

irc.m.o doesn't have a AAAA.  One lone server, whose name doesn't indicate it's a v6 host, does.  Internals can figure it out from mana, but, publicly/documentedly, it'd be good to have the v6 support attached to a proper hostname (e.g ipv6.irc.m.o) rather than the behind-the-scenes name.

Comment 1

[Dan Parsons [:lerxst]]

It was meant to have AAAA at launch tonight, but we're using Dynect's "Traffic Management" feature (geodns) which is not making it easy to have an AAAA at the root node. It will be sorted out soon.

Comment 2

[:Atoll]

On this topic, suggest creating ipv6.irc.mozilla.org as a static AAAA record for bruford for users who desire IPv6 *only*, with no fallback to IPv4 (and to provide a simpler test platform for "can i use ipv6", too).

Comment 3

[Dan Parsons [:lerxst]]

Fixed!