[INFRA-2084] IPv6 for www.apache.org (and others) is down

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: Initial Clearing
• Component/s: HTTP Server
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Bernhard Schmidt
• Created: 04/Jun/09 19:42
• Updated: 22/Jan/14 23:18
• Resolved: 28/Sep/09 17:56

Description

since a couple of days www.apache.org is down on IPv6, but carries an AAAA record.

% traceroute6 -q1 www.apache.org
traceroute to www.apache.org (2001:610:1:80bc:192:87:106:226) from
2001:4ca0:0:f000:221:9bff:fe80:d1cd, 30 hops max, 24 byte packets
 1 vl-23.csr2-2wr.lrz-muenchen.de (2001:4ca0:0:f000::2) 0.628 ms
 2 xr-gar1-te2-3-91.x-win.dfn.de (2001:638:c:a03e::1) 0.682 ms
 3 zr-fra1-te0-7-0-1.x-win.dfn.de (2001:638:c:c043::2) 8.566 ms
 4 dfn.rt1.fra.de.geant2.net (2001:798:14:10aa::1) 8.033 ms
 5 so-5-0-0.rt1.ams.nl.geant2.net (2001:798:cc:1401:2201::2) 15.335 ms
 6 surfnet-gw.rt1.ams.nl.geant2.net (2001:798:22:10aa::2) 15.481 ms
 7 AE2.500.JNR01.Asd001A.surf.net (2001:610:e08:76::78) 15.469 ms
 8 2001:610:f01:9168::170 (2001:610:f01:9168::170) 15.511 ms
 9 *
10 2001:610:f01:9168::170 (2001:610:f01:9168::170) 3014.62 ms !H

% telnet www.apache.org 80
Trying 2001:610:1:80bc:192:87:106:226...
[timeout of several minutes]

This leads to repeated timeouts of up to several minutes for all IPv6-enabled clients when opening the websites.

Please fix connectivity (preferred) or pull the AAAA record from DNS.