Open Bug 1950054 Opened 28 days ago Updated 14 days ago

Firefox cannot be downloaded from the IPv6 internet

Categories

(Fenix :: General, defect)

Firefox 137
defect

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(Not tracked)

UNCONFIRMED

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(Reporter: minfrin, Unassigned, NeedInfo)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3 Safari/605.1.15

Steps to reproduce:

Attempt to download Firefox from download.mozilla.org on an IPv6 only machine.

Actual results:

Error received "address unreachable".

Expected results:

Download successful.

Cause is that DNS AAAA records do not exist:

Little-Net-8818:Library minfrin$ dig AAAA bouncer-bouncer-elb.prod.mozaws.net

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> AAAA bouncer-bouncer-elb.prod.mozaws.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 47438
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;bouncer-bouncer-elb.prod.mozaws.net. IN AAAA

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
prod.mozaws.net. 3062 IN NS ns-1260.awsdns-29.org.
prod.mozaws.net. 3062 IN NS ns-1986.awsdns-56.co.uk.
prod.mozaws.net. 3062 IN NS ns-377.awsdns-47.com.
prod.mozaws.net. 3062 IN NS ns-614.awsdns-12.net.

;; Query time: 34 msec
;; SERVER: 2a07:244:44:3b00::10#53(2a07:244:44:3b00::10)
;; WHEN: Mon Feb 24 09:32:36 GMT 2025
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 190

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Fenix::General' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → General
Product: Firefox → Fenix

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