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Questions tagged [ipv6]

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Is it time to add IPv6 access to my websites?

I have several dedicated servers and VPS servers, and some of those are at companies that have provided me with native IPv6 blocks (in addition to the IPv4 IP addresses). Does it currently make sense to point an AAAA record to an IPv6 address on my…
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How do I make my website available via IPV6 under an AWS load balancer?

What do I need to do to make my website available under IPV6? My site is running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) behind a load balancer. I just saw that Amazon has announced support elastic load balancers via IPV6. What settings do I need to enable…
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Why is IPv6 not backward compatible with IPv4?

Also, how does it affect our websites? Do we need to shift all IPv4 websites to IPv6 or both?
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Can a site hosted with Squarespace be configured to work with IPv6?

There is no info on squarespace.com regarding IPv6 support and even squarespace.com does not have any AAAA records present. This leads to the question: Can my website hosted on Squarespace be reached via IPv6? If so, where should the DNS records…
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How to manage DNS for service that runs on both IPV4 and IPV6?

I have a web server that accepts IPv6 and IPv4 connections, and I would prefer that IPV6 be the default. However I am at a loss for how to correctly handle setting up the DNS for this. Is the solution to simply make identical A and AAAA records for…
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How does IPv6 and AAAA DNS records affect my visitors?

If I set up a web site and the web server only has IPv6, and my domain uses a AAAA DNS record instead of a A record, how does this affect my visitors? Can only end users that have IPv6 on their client access my web site? if that is the case, is…
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Apache2: How to block a range of IPv6 addresses in .htaccess?

My website gets flooded with requests from the following IPv6 addresses: 2a03:2880:13ff:4::face:b00c 2a03:2880:22ff:3::face:b00c 2a03:2880:11ff:d::face:b00c 2a03:2880:13ff:9::face:b00c 2a03:2880:15ff::face:b00c and so on. Note that I am aware that…
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cPanel doesn't recognize IPv6 address in MySQLRemote

I need to input my IP on cPanel's MySQLRemote list of authorized addresses, and it says is invalid. When I go to http://whatismyipaddress.com/ or run ipconfig, it shows my IP address is as below: 2804:7f2:2280:940d:c5c:41e2:ca42:c2fb When I try to…
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IPv6 traffic peaks every 2 hours at same value

I am building a website and there are no users yet. Odd thing is, every 2 hours I see a peak in IPv6 traffic: I am concerned someone is polling my server for nefarious reasons. Am I right to be worried? I am connected to the server using putty and…
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Traffic exclusion for IPv6 addresses when IP Anonymization value in Google Analytics is 'true'

As we know with all this new GDPR, the IP Anonymization settings are more common in our Google Analytics settings. The question is, how to exclude IPv6 addresses by using IP Exclusion filters in Google Analytics if the IP Anonymization value is set…
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Google Analytics Exclusion on IPv4 and IPv6

I am trying to filter out "my own" aka "internal" traffic as a new View in Google Analytics. I was able to filter out my own traffic by excluding my IPv6 address, but not by excluding by public IPv4 address or block. I can see a successful and…
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Gmail rejects mails via ipv6 as Spam

Sometimes when I send from my server, I get the following response from Gmail (IP masked by me) : host aspmx.l.google.com[2a00:1450:4013:c00::1a] said: 550-5.7.1 [2a01:**:**:**::2 12] Our system has detected that this 550-5.7.1 message is…
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Can search engine fetch/index website that using ipv6 only?

I see some host providers offer cheap server but only support ipv6. I want to rent it, but I am still considering the SEO impact. Can google and other search engine crawl and index it? If yes, will it have same qualification rank as ipv4?
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How to filter an IPv6 traffic from Google Analytics data?

I need to filter my local IP address out of my Google Analytics data. I'm following this tutorial on how to do it: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034840?hl=en If your network is IPv6 compatible and you are sending Analytics IPv6…
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Do domains work with IPv6 only nowadays?

I would like to run a website without dedicated IPv4 domain, but with dedicated ipv6, if it works and it is much cheaper. I hope it can be free. Freeness is easily searchable. I have Googled "dedicated ipv6 price" and have found out that they are…
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