Questions tagged [ipv6]

The Internet Protocol is one of the fundamental protocols used for the Internet. IPv6 is the next generation Internet Protocol, as opposed to the currently common Internet Protocol known as IPv4.

Primarily IPv6 increases the number of available addresses to allow continued expansion of the Internet once all of the addresses are allocated. There are a number of other noticeable changes over , which are based on the lessons learned from the evolution of .

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How to access devices with IPV6 link local address from browser(like IE,firefox etc)?

Both my device and the host through which i'm trying to access are in the same subnet. Scenario: I have a switch and a server in same subnet. I have to access switch using ipv6 link local address from the browser in my server. Can anyone pls tell me…
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IPv6 - Apple rejects iOS app because of not Supporting IPv6 DNS64 / NAT64 Networks

Where is the error? Apple reject app and sent messege: Performance - 2.1 We discovered one or more bugs in your app when reviewed on iPad and iPhone running iOS 9.3.5 on Wi-Fi connected to an IPv6 network. Specifically, an error is displayed when a…
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Do I need to replace NSURLConnection in order to achieve mandatory support for IPv6-only services?

As Apple is requesting app submitted for review must support IPv6-only network starting from 1st June 2016, I am checking if I need to replace certain API / libraries in my app. However I don't know much enough about networking and some related…
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Why does IPAddress.MapToIPv4() throw ArgumentOutOfRangeException?

This code throws an ArgumentOutOfRangeException on the last line var initAddress = IPAddress.Parse("1.65.128.190"); var ipv6Address = initAddress.MapToIPv6(); Assert.IsTrue(ipv6Address.IsIPv4MappedToIPv6); var ipv4Address =…
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Dual IPv4 and IPv6 support in Flask applications

Would it be possible to run Flask to listen in both IPv4 and IPv6 (i.e. dual IP stack)? As far as I checked it is possible to run either in IPv4 using: app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=port, debug=True) or IPv6 using app.run(host='::', port=port,…
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Java check if IPv4 or IPv6 address is in a given subnet

How can I check if an IP address is in a given subnet? I was able to do this by using Apache Commons SubnetUtils (SubnetUtils.SubnetInfo.isInRange) but it does not support IPv6 yet.
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Performance difference between urllib2 and asyncore

I have some questions about the performance of this simple python script: import sys, urllib2, asyncore, socket, urlparse from timeit import timeit class HTTPClient(asyncore.dispatcher): def __init__(self, host, path): …
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enumerating ipv4 and ipv6 address of my cards using boost asio

I am trying to enumerate ipv4 and ipv6 addresses of all the network cards(I have 2 cards) my pc. I am using the following code to do that. using boost::asio::ip::tcp; boost::asio::io_service io_service; tcp::resolver resolver(io_service); …
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IPv6 link-local address format

I am working on a project related to networking/compression. One of the machines is Windows Vista, which already has IPv6 configured. When I try ipconfig, I see an address in the following format: fe80::9dc8:72fa:aacd:76e2%10 But when I try to ping…
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App Rejected with iOS IPv6 network

Yesterday, I submitted my app for review, but I got this message from Apple: We discovered one or more bugs in your app when reviewed on iPad iPhone running iOS 9.3.2 on Wi-Fi connected to an IPv6 network. Specifically, upon review we have found…
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Store both IPv4 and IPv6 address in a single column

I want to be able to store both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in my table. What is the most efficient way to store the IP address of a user regardless of whether it is an IPv4 or IPv6 address? This will be used in a production environment, so future…
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Stop the mosquitto (MQTT) broker from listening to a port using the command line

When I ran the Mosquitto (MQTT) broker for the first time there was no issue. But however from he second time when i ran it using default config I could not run the code successfully because of the following error: 1379497253: mosquitto version 1.2…
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Returning from __len__() when >64 bits

In this problem, I'm dealing with IPv6 network address spaces, so the length is 2^(128-subnet). It appears that python (at least on this machine), will cope with up to a 64 bit signed number as the return value from __len__(). So…
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PHP Curl CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE

I have been working on a facebook application which uses facebook graph API for authentication, recently facebook upgraded to IPv6 and my network does'nt support IPv6 so all of my calls started returning Host is unreachable error, I searched on…
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How to listen on all IPV6 addresses using C sockets API

I maintain GPSD, a widely-deployed open-source service daemon that monitors GPSes and other geodetic sensors. It listens for client-application connections on port 2947 on both IPv4 and IPv6. For security and privacy it normally listens only on the…
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