> It sounds like you've got some globally unique IPv6 addresses assigned to an interface somewhere Single inet6 address up is fe80::xxx. My outdated ISP does n

> It sounds like you've got some globally unique IPv6 addresses assigned to an interface somewhere Single inet6 address up is fe80::xxx. My outdated ISP does not provide any v6 connectivity. But my cellular (other) ISP provides v6 and I use tethering while traveling, so would like to avoid disabling INET6. > addresses returned from getaddrinfo) will return IPv6 first and try that before falling back to IPv4. It's random with no v6 preference. ping6 fails immediately upon attempt to reach outside world: ping6: UDP connect: No route to host ping6 2606:4700:4700::1111 0.00s user 0.00s system 50% cpu 0.005 total And here's an example[1] of how how pkg hangs for about a minute when it selects unreachable v6 address. [1] https://bsd.to/NuYu/raw https://bsd.to/NuYu/raw