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   Tommi Koivula to Michiel van der Vlist   
   ipv6 live testing ?   
   26 Mar 21 17:57:02   
   
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   TID: hpt/os2-wc 1.9.0-cur 2021-03-25   
   26 Mar 21 13:28, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Tommi Koivula:   
      
    MV>>> So you first made an IPv4 connect and then manually entered an   
    MV>>> override to use fido6.vlist.eu instead of fido.vlist.eu?   
      
    TK>> Exactly.   
      
    MV> Two questions:   
      
    MV> 1) Where does the fido6.vlist.eu come from? It exists in the DNS but it   
   is only for local use   
    MV> and not advertised in the nodelist. It is not advertised anywhere AFAIK.   
   Maybe I mentioned it   
    MV> somewhere and forgot? Or maybe you just happened to make the right guess?   
      
   From my memory... Or imagination... I think you have announced it once in some   
   testings in the past? If not, a good guess. :D   
      
    TK>> That happens because Radius resolves the hostname and uses the ipv4   
    TK>> address, even when connecting via proxy.   
      
    MV> 2) So this manual override works only for my node and to connect to   
   another node you have to   
    MV> make another override? IOW manually enter a new line in the config for   
   each node that is to be   
    MV> connected via IPv6?   
      
   Pretty much so when the node has also IPv4 address. But using an ipv6-capable   
   proxy with Radius makes it possible to connect IPv6-only nodes too. :)   
      
   'Tommi   
      
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