[Distutils] Missing IPv6 support on pypi.python.org

Baptiste Jonglez baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org
Mon Nov 9 19:17:13 EST 2015


Thanks for your quick answer!  Let's hope Fastly will deploy IPv6 soon, then.

Baptiste

On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 09:13:49PM -0500, Donald Stufft wrote:
> I’m pretty sure that PyPI will get IPv6 support as soon as Fastly supports it and not any sooner. I know they’re working on making it happen but I don’t think they have a public timeline for it yet.
> 
> On November 8, 2015 at 4:34:32 PM, Baptiste Jonglez (baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  
> > pypi.python.org is currently not reachable over IPv6.
> >  
> > I know this issue was brought up before [1,2]. This is a real issue for
> > us, because our backend servers are IPv6-only (clients never need to talk
> > to backend servers, they go through IPv4-enabled HTTP frontends).
> >  
> > So, deploying packages from pypi on the IPv6-only servers is currently a
> > pain. What is the roadmap to add IPv6 support? It seems that Fastly has
> > already deployed IPv6 [3].
> >  
> > Thanks,
> > Baptiste
> >  
> >  
> > [1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2014-June/024465.html  
> > [2] https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/issues/90/missing-ipv6-connectivity
> > [3] http://bgp.he.net/AS54113#_prefixes6
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