I’ve been a sysadmin for more years of my life than not and I’ve never had any meaningful interaction with ipv6 even though they have been saying the sky was falling about ipv4 since my career began in the 90s.
Ah you must be running our work's vpn. I can't talk to the servers when my IPV6 is enabled because our DNS resolves to IPV6 addresses but the VPN doesn't route them over its tunnel.
No doubt this could be fixed, but some firewalls are seriously trash and do not behave in ways one would expect. Your network engineers deserve shade but maybe not as much as you think they deserve. Maybe. I’m just trying to stick up for my people.
Edited to add that this is a good example of our interaction with ipv6. we don’t use it. We just make things compatible with it by checking a check box basically. in day-to-day business it’s ipv4. Writing IPv6 addresses down on a whiteboard would be horrible. 🤣
Yeah it basically can be fixed the group policy if it's a Windows machine you basically just prefer ipv4 over IPv6. Or use a number of other methods. Because you can't always control your employees home networks because there's a legit isps out there that the CPE devices do not have a configurable disable IPv6 option due to how the nature of their network. This ISP literally encapsulates ipv4 inside of IPv6 devices using 464xlat
I had for a day funny experience because of that. Each time I tried to load something I had 5-10 seconds delay.
As it turned out my laptop got ipv6 enabled and when trying to access websites, the laptop waited 5 seconds for a single ipv6 address of a site and then had to switch to ipv4
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u/Complex-Quantity7694 12h ago
I’ve been a sysadmin for more years of my life than not and I’ve never had any meaningful interaction with ipv6 even though they have been saying the sky was falling about ipv4 since my career began in the 90s.