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First thing I do setting up any network is disable ipv6. It's caused issues at least once, and that's one time too many for something that doesn't benefit me in
by hot_gril 4y ago
First thing I do setting up any network is disable ipv6. It's caused issues at least once, and that's one time too many for something that doesn't benefit me in any other way.
- kitkat_new 4y agoFor me, the first thing is actually enabling ipv6
- hot_gril 4y agoYeah, either direction is changing a big part of your network stack, so it has a high likelihood of resolving random issues.
- b0afc375b5 4y agoOn my linux machine, dns queries would sometimes last 5 seconds with ipv6 enabled. It made my internet surfing experience extremely frustrating. Disabling ipv6 resolved this issue. Don't really understand networks yet, but I guess it was because my isp doesn't support ipv6, but linux kept defaulting to ipv6 before trying ipv4.
- hot_gril 4y agoMost likely your DNS (which may be the ISP default) is bad at handling ipv6 queries, solvable by switching to Cloudflare DNS or something. If you care. Probably neither of us would bother.