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Re: Anybody Using IPv6?

From "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Anybody Using IPv6?
Date 2025-05-20 18:34 +0200
Message-ID <m93p9bF8pgcU12@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2025-05-20 18:02, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 20/05/2025 16:49, Marc Haber wrote:
>> "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That's a really stupid idea.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I suggest he enable it from time to time to see if the ISP
>>>>>>> has got it working.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I suggest not disabling it in in the first place. It doesn't hurt 
>>>>>> when
>>>>>> it's unused and unconfigured.
>>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>
>> Only that that is not the case.
>>
> Seen it happen.

Me too. I asked for advice, and the solution was to give preference to 
IPv4 over 6.

Possibly there was some bad configuration somewhere, but where? If it 
was out there, it was out of my reach.

It has not happened to me for some years, though. Go figure. Did my 
distro do something? Dunno.


Consider that, for instance, this laptop has an IPv6 address:

cer@Isengard:~> ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
         inet 192.168.1.16  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 192.168.255.255
         inet6 fc00::16  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
         inet6 fe80::4ecc:6aff:fe61:50a1  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
         ether 4c:cc:6a:61:50:a1  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
...

So applications thought that IPv6 was available.


-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.

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Anybody Using IPv6? Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-05-15 18:42 +0000
  Re: Anybody Using IPv6? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-05-17 18:01 +0000
    Re: Anybody Using IPv6? % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-05-17 11:05 -0700
      Re: Anybody Using IPv6? % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-05-17 11:17 -0700
      Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-05-18 07:16 -0400
    Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2025-05-17 15:13 -0300
      Linux advocacy (was: Re: Anybody Using IPv6?) vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-05-18 00:11 +0000
        Re: Linux advocacy (was: Re: Anybody Using IPv6?) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-05-17 23:45 -0400
          Re: Linux advocacy (was: Re: Anybody Using IPv6?) Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-18 10:02 +0200
            Re: Linux advocacy (was: Re: Anybody Using IPv6?) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-18 20:27 +0000
              Re: Linux advocacy (was: Re: Anybody Using IPv6?) Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-19 08:13 +0200
                Re: Linux advocacy (was: Re: Anybody Using IPv6?) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-19 07:24 +0000
            Re: Linux advocacy (was: Re: Anybody Using IPv6?) vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-05-19 19:26 +0000
              Re: Linux advocacy (was: Re: Anybody Using IPv6?) Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-20 10:00 +0200
                Re: Linux advocacy Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-20 09:36 +0100
                Re: Linux advocacy "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-20 11:46 +0200
                Re: Linux advocacy Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-20 12:20 +0200
                Re: Linux advocacy The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-20 10:38 +0100
                Re: Linux advocacy Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-20 12:21 +0200
                Re: Linux advocacy The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-20 11:33 +0100
                Re: Linux advocacy Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-20 17:48 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-20 13:04 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-20 17:49 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-20 17:02 +0100
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-20 18:34 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-20 19:43 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-20 19:52 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-20 23:14 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-21 03:46 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-21 08:05 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-21 09:13 +0100
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-21 10:42 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-21 13:16 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-21 14:00 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-05-21 14:30 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-21 14:45 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-21 16:53 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-21 18:30 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-05-21 17:16 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-21 18:31 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-21 16:52 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-21 16:47 +0100
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-21 21:14 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-21 19:16 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-05-22 09:10 +1000
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-22 09:27 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-22 18:16 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-22 20:51 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-21 17:35 +0100
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-21 21:18 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-21 21:10 +0100
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-21 19:22 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-21 21:21 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-05-21 03:16 +0000
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-21 08:07 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-05-21 12:45 +0000
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-21 17:19 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-21 10:39 +0200
          Re: Linux advocacy "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-18 11:07 +0200
            Re: Linux advocacy Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-19 08:14 +0200
              Re: Linux advocacy "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-19 12:27 +0200
                Re: Linux advocacy Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-19 14:54 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-19 15:37 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-19 16:36 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-19 17:31 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-19 17:58 +0100
        Re: Linux advocacy Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-18 09:46 +0100
          Re: Linux advocacy Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-18 09:49 +0100
    Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-17 20:50 +0200
      Re: Anybody Using IPv6? % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-05-17 11:52 -0700
    Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Popping Mad <rainbow@colition.gov> - 2025-05-18 03:26 -0400
      Re: Anybody Using IPv6? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-05-20 00:17 -0400
        Re: Anybody Using IPv6? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-20 10:35 +0100
          Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-20 12:14 +0200
            Re: Anybody Using IPv6? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-20 11:35 +0100
              Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-20 17:45 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-20 17:00 +0100
        Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-20 11:55 +0200
      Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-20 09:59 +0200
        Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-20 09:21 +0100
        Re: Anybody Using IPv6? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-20 10:37 +0100
          Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-20 12:15 +0200
            Re: Anybody Using IPv6? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-20 11:33 +0100
              Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-20 17:47 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-20 17:01 +0100
          Re: Anybody Using IPv6? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-05-20 23:42 -0400
            Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-21 08:03 +0200
              Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-05-21 08:21 -0700
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-21 21:13 +0200
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-21 23:09 +0100
                Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-22 09:25 +0200
            Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-21 10:47 +0200
  Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-18 09:59 +0200
    Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-18 11:12 +0200
      Re: Anybody Using IPv6? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-18 20:18 +0000
        Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-19 08:11 +0200
          Re: Anybody Using IPv6? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-19 07:11 +0000
            Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-19 09:33 +0200
      Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-05-19 08:09 +0200

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