Re: Anybody Using IPv6?

On 2025-05-20 12:21, Marc Haber wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 20/05/2025 09:00, Marc Haber wrote:

vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:

On Sun, 18 May 2025 10:02:22 +0200, Marc Haber
<mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> wrote in <100c46e$3c1el$1@news1.tnib.de>:

    As for IPV6 ... my ISP doesn't use it. NO use at all - so I disable
    it to prevent problems.

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That's a really stupid idea.

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I suggest he enable it from time to time to see if the ISP
has got it working.

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I suggest not disabling it in in the first place. It doesn't hurt when
it's unused and unconfigured.
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Oh but it does, when you get ipV6 addresses returned by DNS and you cant
reach them...

 And where is the problem with that?

You don't understand. You want to access gmail, for instance. The address resolves to some IPv6 and some IPv4 addresses, and your computer tries to connect on the IPv6 addresses. The application shows an error: address unreachable.
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