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From: Harsh Shandilya <me@msfjarvis.dev>
To: "Jérémy Prego" <jeremy@pregonetwork.net>
Cc: wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com, team@wireguard.com
Subject: Re: wireguard android don't prefer IPV6 endpoint
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2021 13:48:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37dc844baef3dd8540df172318dafa21@msfjarvis.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64137c2f-266a-1a06-9130-e8b42ecd4edf@pregonetwork.net>

Hey Jérémy,

On 2021-01-02 08:27, Jérémy Prego wrote:
> I confirm the same problem in wifi
> 
> Le 27/12/2020 à 07:02, Jérémy Prego a écrit :
>> hello,
>> 
>> I've always encountered a bug with android wireguard when using an 
>> ipv4
>> / ipv6 endpoint.
>> 
>> I tested with two phones:
>> Huawei p10 lite android 8.0 emui 8
>> Xiaomi poco m3 android 10.0 miui 12
>> 
>> When i'm in LTE (not yet been able to test in wifi), wireguard 
>> connects
>> to the endpoint in ipv4 and not in ipv6, and i don't understand why it
>> is doing that.

The WireGuard Android client is designed to prefer IPv4 over IPv6 as of 
now 
(https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-android/tree/tunnel/src/main/java/com/wireguard/config/InetEndpoint.java#n97). 
This may or may not change in the future, and we'll announce here if it 
does.

>> However, chrome, for example, does use ipv6 by default and not ipv4.
>> 
>> My phone does recover an ipv6 in 2a01: cb1a ........ / 64 and not an
>> ipv6 type fc00 / fd00 / fe80 ...
>> I also specify that if I only have an AAAA record, the tunnel works 
>> fine
>> in ipv6. but suddenly, I can no longer connect to wifi which only have 
>> ipv4.
>> 
>> I would like wireguard to favor ipv6 when it is available, and 
>> otherwise
>> switch to ipv4.
>> 
>> Is it possible ?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Jerem

Cheers,
Harsh

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-03 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <ead64d0f-af1e-8d5c-3d87-ed14902c5e1e@pregonetwork.net>
2021-01-02  8:27 ` Jérémy Prego
2021-01-03 13:48   ` Harsh Shandilya [this message]
2021-01-03 15:58     ` Jérémy Prego
2021-01-03 16:44       ` Harsh Shandilya
2021-09-26 11:02       ` Jérémy Prego
2021-09-26 11:50         ` tlhackque

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