Hi, On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 10:59:22AM -0700, Jordan Hayes wrote: > It's super annoying to see this kind of behavior.
Yes, thanks very much for *your* contributions to the OpenVPN ecosystem.
*I* have spent very much time to implement and improve the IPv6 support
(*and* to provide the tools to ignore server-pushed options, if someone
would bother to read the manuals) - and it pains me if people spread the
lore that "disabling IPv6 is a good way forward".
It is not, and it only leads to more work for other people later on.
Half of the "you need to disable IPv6 to achieve..." is bullshit, and the
other half is misunderstood lore.
Like, "with IPv6 in my VPN I can be tracked" - no, you can't, it's
still "just an IP address that the VPN provider assigns", and as IPv4,
it can change, or can not, over time *depending on what the VPN provider
does*. From a server perspective, it's the same thing: an IP address
belonging to the VPN provider. One with dots, one with colons.
There is reliable measurement data that performance from mobile networks
to dual-stacked servers is *better* using IPv6 than using IPv4, due to
the avoidance of CGNAT boxes, leading to better routing and less issues
due to CGNAT state overflow.
gert
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"If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you
feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted
it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."
Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Gert Doering - Munich, Germany g...@greenie.muc.de
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