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From: Nico Schottelius <nico.schottelius@ungleich.ch>
To: Will Tisdale <will@z3n.uk>
Cc: wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com
Subject: Re: Request to change IPv4 preference - mobile apps
Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 22:57:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnovti6t.fsf@line.ungleich.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFWLA-XbDKtYHib8G2ujk7E+fsuPco9uX9NvPsu35Dd_HxVGyA@mail.gmail.com>


Hey Will,

I think the "proper" way to handle this is by using the happy eyeballs
algorithm: resolve AAAA and A, connect to both, use whatever answers
first.

Best,

Nico

Will Tisdale <will@z3n.uk> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I sent a message to the list about weirdness with IPv4 being preferred
> over IPv6 in the iOS app a few days ago, but it didn't get there for
> whatever reason.
>
> I've since done a bit of digging through the code and found that
> preferring IPv4 is intentional, and it's also implemented that way on
> the Android app too.
>
> It seems a shame to hobble native IPv6 support for everyone just to
> work around some peoples misconfigured setups.
>
> My suggestion/request would be to change the apps to prefer IPv6 as
> default, but add a switch to the apps to disable IPv6 or prefer IPv4
> for those with broken setups.
>
> Does that seem reasonable?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> -Will
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-11 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-14 17:17 Will Tisdale
2019-05-06 20:57 ` Nico Schottelius [this message]
2019-05-07 16:28   ` Will Tisdale
2019-05-08  9:18     ` Nico Schottelius

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