On 06/29/2017 08:41 PM, teor wrote: > >> On 30 Jun 2017, at 16:55, Scott Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
<SNIP> >> Also, is there a problem with having IPv6-only exit service where a >> relay is accessable via IPv4 for clients and other relays? > > Most tor clients send a DNS name, and flags that say whether they > allow IPv4 and IPv6, and which one they prefer. They rely on the Exit > to resolve the IP address and connect to the site. > > On the current network, an IPv6-only Exit won't get the Exit flag, and > therefore won't get much client traffic. OK, so exits need both IPv4 and IPv6. > And it probably shouldn't, until almost all internet sites are on IPv6. > Otherwise clients will ask it to connect to IPv4-only sites, and it > will fail them. This confuses me a little. From another subthread: On 06/29/2017 02:02 PM, teor wrote: <SNIP> > Many Exit operators already enable IPv6Exit. > Most Tor clients automatically Exit through IPv6 when it is available. > (It is the default in recent versions of Tor.) What happens for Tor clients without local IPv6 stacks, when they use a dual-stack exit to hit a dual-stack site? An IPv4 connection, right? If the client is on a dual-stack machine, it would default to IPv6, right? So Tor circuits would be doing IPv6 over IPv4, yes? _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
