[Distutils] PyPI lost IPv6 support?

[Nick Coghlan]

On 10 June 2014 22:59, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> On Jun 10, 2014, at 7:44 AM, Daniele Sluijters <daniele.sluijters at gmail.com> wrote:
>> PyPi not being available over IPv6 anymore is not "we're not willing
>> to do extra work to enable it", it's a regression. I understand that
>> this is not something the PSF can solve but it should at least push
>> Fastly to roll out IPv6.
>
> I'm pretty sure the thing is that there are many more important things that are
> of a higher priority than IPv6 support. While IPv6 support is nice to have, it
> also doesn't generally matter unless there is someone trying to connect to
> PyPI who has no IPv4 connectivity. I don't believe it to be likely that there
> is many, if any, people who do not have IPv4 connectivity else they'd be unable
> to reach vast parts of the internet.

The thread prompted me to go back and check the status of IPv4
availability, at least in APAC, since IANA originally ran out of /8
blocks a few years back. It turns out APNIC is still parcelling out
their last /8 block, and the IANA's reclamation of unused IPv4 blocks
also freed up some addresses for reallocation. (I tried to look up the
status for Africa as well, but didn't find any clear statement in a
quick search).

> I'm sure at some point Fastly will have IPv6 connectivity, at which point there
> won't be any major reason *not* to turn it on.

It's something we'll want to keep an eye on, but yeah, at this point
in time, when connecting an IPv6-only system to the internet, PyPI is
likely to be long way down the "it isn't working" priority list.

Cheers,
Nick.

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