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download.zfsonlinux.org not accessible via IPv6 #111

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Unfortunately, the official download option for Source RPMs (download.zfsonlinux.org) is not accessible via IPv6, but only via IPv4. This is because only a CNAME for an IPv4-only service is stored in the DNS.

$ host download.zfsonlinux.org
download.zfsonlinux.org is an alias for download.zfsonlinux.org.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com.
download.zfsonlinux.org.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com is an alias for s3-website.us-west-2.amazonaws.com.
s3-website.us-west-2.amazonaws.com has address 3.5.80.31
s3-website.us-west-2.amazonaws.com has address 52.92.207.91
s3-website.us-west-2.amazonaws.com has address 3.5.83.183
s3-website.us-west-2.amazonaws.com has address 52.92.229.67
s3-website.us-west-2.amazonaws.com has address 52.92.239.107
s3-website.us-west-2.amazonaws.com has address 52.92.227.227
s3-website.us-west-2.amazonaws.com has address 3.5.82.151
s3-website.us-west-2.amazonaws.com has address 3.5.81.217

This means that the RPM repositories cannot be accessed by IPv6-only systems. To my knowledge, there is a dual-stack equivalent for s3-website.us-west-2.amazonaws.com: s3-website.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com. Would it be possible to switch to this or at least offer the option of accessing it via IPv6 using a separate domain?

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