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Ask HN: How can I initiate communication from IPv6

1 points by tzury 8y ago

We need to debug an issue with IPv6 in our platform. Although cloud platforms we use fully supporting incoming IPv6 traffic, so there is no issue on this part. However, for debugging purposes, I could not find a way to communicate over IPv6. That is forcing a client side to communicate over IPv6. Tried AWS and GCP for this purpose. Do you know of a VPS that allows this?

ggm 8y ago
Use a client on a dualstack enabled mobile platform? Tmo for instance. Native 6 with significant speed advantage compared to 464xlat. Use a 3g or 4g modem on a laptop and use ipfilter to block 4. Linode is dual stack. Curl from a linode instance? Or, build an x11 enabled platform on linode and run an x11 display back home to run chromium client or similar?
IcePic 8y ago
Add only v6 destination ip to /etc/hosts so when you program talks to host.domain.name it instantly resolves to a single v6 ip?
- tzury 8y ago
  I need the client side to be IPv6. Not the server side. Source IP.
  - detaro 8y ago
    Do that on the client? Turn off IPv4 entirely on the client?
  - IcePic 8y ago
    if the destination is v6 only, you can be quite sure the source used would be also.