[pydotorg-www] Fwd: Re: Connection problems with IPv6 - persistent for more than a month now

Sun Feb 13 15:08:08 CET 2011

* webmaster at python.org <webmaster at python.org>:
> A user having trouble with python.org over ipv6. He assures us he
> *can* connect to other sites with ipv6 and has provided some
> diagnostic information.

I'll check, since I'm also using IPv6 :)

> I'm 98% sure this problem is on your end - if I had to hazard a guess
> I'd say your webserver(s) or firewall are silently dropping IPv6
> connections to port 80. Could it still be a weird browser or stack
> issue - sure, they're complicated software and could be
> mis-configured or have bugs, but can *you* reach the site over IPv6?

$ wget -6 http://python.org
--2011-02-13 15:07:03--  http://python.org/
Resolving python.org... 2001:888:2000:d::a2
Connecting to python.org|2001:888:2000:d::a2|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 18848 (18K) [text/html]
Saving to: index.html.1'

100%[==============================================================================>]
18.848      37,1K/s   in 0,5s    

2011-02-13 15:07:03 (37,1 KB/s) - index.html.1' saved [18848/18848]

$ head index.html.1
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">


<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Python Programming Language &ndash; Official Website</title>
      <meta name="keywords" content="python programming language
object oriented web free source" />
  <meta name="description" content="      Home page for Python, an
interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible


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