From: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
To: wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com
Subject: Re: Endpoint address dns resolution - option to prefer IPv6 or IPv4
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 18:08:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <303a9e73-23a9-4d87-b18e-51c8bf137e1d@urlichs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200314165228.jxydplbghnri2ktm@vega>
On 14.03.20 17:52, Luis Ressel wrote:
> A standards-compliant implementation should return an ipv6 address in
> the first position if one is available and the host has a working
> connection to the v6 internet.
Unfortunately that is necessary but not sufficient for the link to
actually succeed. Also a host might have two IPv4 (or IPv6) addresses,
only one of which works, so this problem is not v6-vs.-v4 specific.
Ideally some background process forked by `wg` or `wg-quick` should set
the first address, monitor the peer, and use the next one if it hasn't
been established after some configurable number of seconds (or when the
keepalive fails). Bonus points for re-resolving the address when it expires.
--
-- Matthias Urlichs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-14 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-13 14:52 Torsten Krah
2020-03-14 7:40 ` Stefan Tatschner
2020-03-14 14:53 ` Torsten Krah
[not found] ` <CAADpXXY7ajNwRoF1sivACxUfFj-SpWf6o6+1Uq2N0XzEp3bvTw@mail.gmail.com>
2020-03-14 14:51 ` Torsten Krah
2020-03-16 5:05 ` Roman Mamedov
2020-03-16 8:30 ` Torsten Krah
2020-03-14 16:52 ` Luis Ressel
2020-03-14 17:08 ` Matthias Urlichs [this message]
2020-03-14 18:03 ` Luis Ressel
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