On Tue, 28 Mar 2023, Andy Smith wrote:
Thirdly, if no special handling is in use then your operating
system chooses which address to use. There's an RFC for that, and
all of that is configured in /etc/gai.conf on Debian. The default
behaviour is to try IPv6 first.
The default differs from
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 12:48:13PM +0100, Richmond wrote:
> So how is the preference determined? It seems to be determined by the
> DNS, but why or how do I tell for example with host -v?
I'm not adding anything new here, only pulling together what has
already been said in several different
On 2023-03-27 13:48, Richmond wrote:
I have configured an ipv6 tunnel. If I visit this site:
http://ip6.me/
The "normal" test shows my ipv4 address, and the:
http://ip6only.me/
shows the ipv6 address.
However if I switch my DNS from opendns to the one provided by my ISP
and then run the
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 12:48:13PM +0100, Richmond wrote:
I have configured an ipv6 tunnel. If I visit this site:
http://ip6.me/
The "normal" test shows my ipv4 address, and the:
http://ip6only.me/
shows the ipv6 address.
However if I switch my DNS from opendns to the one provided by my ISP
Vincent Lefevre writes:
> On 2023-03-27 12:48:13 +0100, Richmond wrote:
>> I have configured an ipv6 tunnel. If I visit this site:
>>
>> http://ip6.me/
>>
>> The "normal" test shows my ipv4 address, and the:
>>
>> http://ip6only.me/
>>
>> shows the ipv6 address.
>>
>> However if I switch my
On 27/3/23 20:05, Richmond wrote:
Jeremy Ardley writes:
Both DNS return records. I am not sure why this choice of DNS
should make a difference.
host -v ip6.me |grep
IN
9306IN 2001:4838:0:1b::201
host -v ip6.me
Jeremy Ardley writes:
> On 27/3/23 19:48, Richmond wrote:
>>
>> So how is the preference determined? It seems to be determined by the
>> DNS, but why or how do I tell for example with host -v?
>
> When you as a DNS about a hostname it can return an A record and/or an
> record.
>
> The A
On 2023-03-27 12:48:13 +0100, Richmond wrote:
> I have configured an ipv6 tunnel. If I visit this site:
>
> http://ip6.me/
>
> The "normal" test shows my ipv4 address, and the:
>
> http://ip6only.me/
>
> shows the ipv6 address.
>
> However if I switch my DNS from opendns to the one provided
On 27/3/23 19:48, Richmond wrote:
So how is the preference determined? It seems to be determined by the
DNS, but why or how do I tell for example with host -v?
When you as a DNS about a hostname it can return an A record and/or an
record.
The A record is IPv4 and the record is
I have configured an ipv6 tunnel. If I visit this site:
http://ip6.me/
The "normal" test shows my ipv4 address, and the:
http://ip6only.me/
shows the ipv6 address.
However if I switch my DNS from opendns to the one provided by my ISP
and then run the "normal" test it shows the ipv6.
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