Not just Android. My laptop does it too (NetworkManager). That's just IPv4 on devices designed to travel so it seems a fair thing to do. Bloody pain to diagn

Not just Android. My laptop does it too (NetworkManager). That's just IPv4 on devices designed to travel so it seems a fair thing to do. Bloody pain to diagnose why a static DHCP lease isn't working the first time, after that you find the mechanisms to turn it off. Nearly everything does it for IPv6, for a given value of everything! For decades we have generally allowed all outbound and worried and fretted about and filtered inbound. I think it is time for us all to get a grip and do the job properly. However, with the delights of DNS over http and the like, the horse has not only bolted but has a new paint job, far better shoes than you can afford, eats grass that was prepared by a Michelin starred chef and belongs to someone else now. We all need to be far more sophisticated about how traffic (knowledge/ideas/data) flows in and out of our networks/lives. Packet filtering is just one tool in the box and worrying about an addressing scheme being global (IPv6) instead of a weird hybrid (IPv4) is completely missing the real issue stabbing you in the nadgers.