Concepts / IPv6

IPv6

Dual stack

Also called Happy Eyeballs, address selection, RFC 6724

Running IPv4 and IPv6 side by side; each connection picks one.

A dual-stack device has both kinds of address and gets both A and AAAA records. The system's address selection (RFC 6724) sorts them; Happy Eyeballs programs race IPv6 first and fall back to IPv4 quickly. Both families need their own firewall rules: a rule written for IPv4 does nothing for IPv6.

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