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I have a dual stack DSL connection and do not particularly favor IPv4 or IPv6. But I just looked at my PiHole DNS statistics and I see that AAAA requests have t

I have a dual stack DSL connection and do not particularly favor IPv4 or IPv6. But I just looked at my PiHole DNS statistics and I see that AAAA requests have taken over A requests by now, 47.2% vs 46.2%. Not much but it's something. I wasn't aware that over half of my internet traffic goes over IPv6 already

Dagger2 4y ago
That's just DNS requests, not traffic. You'd expect the number of A and AAAA requests to be about equal, because software simultaneously looks up both record types for each hostname in order to determine which protocols the hostname is reachable over. A number of high traffic sites (e.g. Youtube and Netflix) have v6, so you might find the percentage of your Internet traffic that goes over v6 is actually much higher than that.
evgpbfhnr 4y ago
That doesn't mean much. browsers etc usually request both AAAA and A in parallel, then try to connect to both in parallel (as soon as either reply comes in), and use whichever established connection first. Look for "happy eyeballs" That being said, looking at real stats (number of packets/bytes through ipv4 and ipv6 firewall on my home router) I have a x1.56 ratio in favor of ipv6. It really depends on what content you consume though.