Is your gopher IPv6-enabled? Please check that it still works :)

Hello all,

Yesterday I looked at OGUP's activity and I noticed that it reported a 
lot of sites being "down", while in fact they are reachable.

The problem is that many gopher sites nowadays are exposed both with an 
IPv4 and IPv6 address and in many cases the IPv6 connectivity to the 
host was failing, while the host was still reachable over IPv4. Gopher 
admins often do not notice this because they themselves are not behind 
an IPv6 link, so they think that their gopher is okay.

I have mailed a few of you about this (and some of you fixed it by 
removing IPv6 - thanks!), but I cannot mail everyone. So - if your 
gopher is published under an AAAA record: please make sure it really works.

I think that it is better to have no IPv6 at all rather than flapping 
v6. The users don't care, and when their browser fails to connect to an 
IPv6-enabled site they just assume the host is down (and OGUP does the 
same).

cheers,

Mateusz
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