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I'm a networking noob. Why would they invest time in this? What's the benefit for them to run on IPv6? What's the benefit for you, a user?

• y4mi 9y ago
  ipv6 clients cant talk with ipv4 servers. so they need a packet translation, which increases the latency. there shouldn't be any benefits in this particular case though, because endusers would never actually talk with the application servers. the loadbalancers are probably the only public facing servers, which probably (didn't check) support both. so communication is like this _client_ <== ipv6 ==> _loadbalancer_ <== ipv4 ==> _application server_ vs. _client_ <== ipv6 ==> _loadbalancer_ <== ipv6 ==> _application server_ the situation the GP was talking about is this: _client_ <== ipv6 ==> _ipv6 to ipv4 translation proxy_ <== ipv4 ==> _loadbalancer_ <== ipv4 ==> _application server_ you could theoretically reduce minor latency by just addressing application servers directly _client_ <== ipv6 ==> _application server_ but thats a terrible idea from both reliability and security perspectives