On Mon, 2020-12-28 at 20:51 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
For a while (for a more than 10 Fedora releases) I used to disable
IPv6 because I don't use it. It's been a while since I don't but I'm
about to disable it again on my new installation.
Is there a known application/service that might *misbehave* because
it expects a an ipv6 stack these days?
In my case, the biggest consideration is: Does the ISP carry IPv6
traffic?
Mine didn't (and I'm using the biggest ISP in the country). But having
everything *else* in my LAN with working IPv6 meant that they often
tried to use IPv6 by default, and things would stall at every
connection attempt outside of my LAN.
To use IPv6 web services I'd need an IPv4 - IPv6 tunnel that's hosted
outside of my ISP. I don't have a need for that, so I'm not going to
pay for one.
So, I switch off IPv6 features on everything that lets me: The PC's
network interface, my DNS server, web browsers, audio streamers.
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