Re:VPNs Are Absolutely a Solution to a Policy Problem
by fragmede on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:51PM
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If you're on Comcast business, there's no real implication on turning off IPv6.
Any sites you use that are exclusively available only via IPv6 will stop working, but due to slow adoption of IPv6, that list of exceptions is quite small. IPv6 adoption is big in China, but even then the major services themselves are available over IPv4. (Weibo.com doesn't even advertise an IPv6 AAAA DNS record, so the things I read about IPv6 adoption in China may be overstated.)
There are, of course, exceptions. There are a number of intentionally ipv6-only test sites like https://ipv6.google.com that won't work. Things like Google.com which are available over both IPv4 and IPv6 will degrade gracefully if you turn off IPv6 on your mac, and just connect over IPv4.
Any sites you use that are exclusively available only via IPv6 will stop working, but due to slow adoption of IPv6, that list of exceptions is quite small. IPv6 adoption is big in China, but even then the major services themselves are available over IPv4. (Weibo.com doesn't even advertise an IPv6 AAAA DNS record, so the things I read about IPv6 adoption in China may be overstated.)
There are, of course, exceptions. There are a number of intentionally ipv6-only test sites like https://ipv6.google.com that won't work. Things like Google.com which are available over both IPv4 and IPv6 will degrade gracefully if you turn off IPv6 on your mac, and just connect over IPv4.