IPv6 reachability of rust websites

Currently, the ipv6 reachability of websites operated by the rust team is pretty bad.

Sites with ipv6 support

  • internals.rust-lang.org
  • users.rust-lang.org

Sites without IPv6 support

  • crates.io; probably the most important rust related site
  • static.rust-lang.org
  • rust-lang.org
  • rustup.rs

These are just the sites that I can recall, but there are probably many more.

I’m not listing docs.rs here because its maintained by the community. But, that site does have ipv6.

I know that a large part if not all of those sites are hosted on amazon’s cloud. It seems they support ipv6 since August this year: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-ipv6-support-for-amazon-s3/

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anecdote: most of the internet troubles at rust belt rust would have gone unnoticed if ipv6 would have worked for the mentioned sites that don’t have ipv6 support.

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Thanks for the post! Always good to check up on these sorts of things :slight_smile:

I’ve enabled IPv6 for the CloudFront distributions of static.rust-lang.org and www.rust-lang.org (note that rust-lang.org is a DNS-provider-redirect and may not be ipv6 yet).

Unfortunately Heroku, where crates.io is hosted, does not have IPv6 support yet. Additionally, rustup.rs along with domains like doc.rust-lang.org are hosted directly on EC2 which unfortunately doesn’t have direct IPv6 access either.

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Thanks for enabling ipv6 at those two places! That’s a good start.

@alexcrichton apparently, IPV6 support has arrived for EC2: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ipv6-support-for-ec2-instances-in-virtual-private-clouds/

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Unfortunately all our instances are in “EC2 Classic” and not in a VPC, so I don’t think that feature is available to us yet :frowning:

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