[collectd] ipv6 at collectd.org

Jos?e Manuel Macias Luna jmanuel.macias at rediris.es
Fri Nov 28 11:56:40 CET 2008


Hi Florian,

sorry for the long delay in my reply...

Florian Forster wrote:
> that sounds like an MTU problem or similar. Do you tunnel the IPv6
> traffic somehow? Do other IPv6 sites work, such as www.ipv6.org and
> ipv6.google.com?

yep.. they do work.

> Since my machine has native IPv6 (i. e. without tunnel) and I haven't
> had problems with it for years, I don't think it's a problem on my end.
> But I can always be wrong and 'd be eager to work this out..

well, I was thinking... it seems not a problem with IPv6 in your machine (I'm
reaching it) but with the web server... are you resolving the addresses (for
instance for storing them in your logs)? If so, it could be a problem resolving
back the ipv6 address of my client.

> Did anyone on the list experience similar problems?
>
> If you just want to access the page and don't want to worry about that
> IPv6 problem much, you can simply use the following URL, it will resolve
> to an IPv4 address only:
>   http://ipv4.collectd.org/

ok, thanks for enabling this... :)

regards,

jose manuel.



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