> I've been thinking about this for a while, and mangling DNS seems like > a real dirty way of doing this.
Why mangle it, a v6 only client could have a PAC file rule to set a proxy for anything that returns a v4 address, v6 destinations go direct. Or update socks client to use socks proxy for all v4 only. It may already do this, the config option exists in some to say what destination IPs a particular proxy is for, just set as all v4 (tsocks has it so you can use tor for certain destinations only) > I was wondering whether anyone had any experience in setting a SOCKS > proxy on a v6-only host, where the DNS/SOCKS proxies have both v4 and > v6 addressing, and whether they can then access v4 services like web > sites, mail servers, gaming applications etc. Should work, it's on our todo for BBC socks gateways to add v6 so when the first v6 only destinations appear the v4 only internals will be able to reach them. > I stress that this idea is for v6/v4 co-existence, and isn't designed > for "islands of v4" or "islands of v6", it would of course assume that > v4 availability is restricted and a real effort to move to v6 was > made Not sure about that, we've been running socks since 1993 brandon
