[ripecast] Choppy webcast/broken IPv6

Hi Bruce

I Just wanted to let you know that everything works perfectly.  Thanks
a lot for your efforts.  Good job!

--
Alex

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:20:12 +0100 (CET), Bruce Campbell <bruce.campbell at ripe.net> said:

> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Alexander Gall wrote:

>> I'm trying to watch the webcast of the EOF but I only get a few
>> seconds of audio/video followed by long pauses.  This happens for
>> Mediaplayer/WindowsXP and mplayer/Linux and for any of the sources
>> listed on http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-47/webcast.html, so I
>> assume this is a general problem.

> It is.  As all of our mirrors get their stream from this server, and
> thus problems with that server do affect all of our downstreams.

>> Also, when trying to view the stream over IPv6 with mplayer on Linux,
>> I get

> Adding an IPv6 stack to the machine was the only thing that changed since
> RIPE 46.  Under test conditions, it seemed to have behaved as expected,
> but unfortunately under operating conditions it seems to fail, and cause
> problems for the machine's IPv4 streaming.

> Accordingly, we are going to remove the IPv6 stack during the next break
> (10:30 - 11:00 today, GMT+0100) which will hopefully bring back
> reliability to the external streams.  Unfortunately, we won't have any
> IPv6 streaming from the office (but you can still get your IPv6 streaming
> fix from CESNET: mms://server6.streaming.cesnet.cz/ripemtg) as a
> consequence.

> Regards,

> -- 
>                              Bruce Campbell                            RIPE
>                    Systems/Network Engineer                             NCC
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