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Reddit ipv6 was enabled before Christmas but got disabled because of issues with the Android app and square’s okhttp lib I think. Namely that it didn’t support

by kd913 5y ago

Reddit ipv6 was enabled before Christmas but got disabled because of issues with the Android app and square’s okhttp lib I think. Namely that it didn’t support happy eyeballs.

rekoil 5y ago
I'm sorry but "happy eyeballs"?
- zinekeller 5y ago
  Yeah, the name is straight from marketing (implying happy people seeing a fast website). It simply means that clients detect which is the better connection (whether IPv4 or IPv6) rather than naive IPv6-first or IPv4-first. RFC Standards about this: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6555 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6555 and https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8305 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8305 Unfortunately OkHttp is naively priotising IPv6 regardless if the IPv6 connection is good or not.
  - tadfisher 5y ago
    The latest release now has a Happy Eyeballs implementation.