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Re:Reasons for servers to support IPv6 by tolien on Saturday January 29, 2022 @10:23AM (#30126999)
Does your phone only have a v6 address though? If it did, you would need some kind of proxy (6to4 [1], the most likely example) connecting to HN's IPv4 address on your behalf.

As the sibling points out, if both site and device support v6 the intermediate translation isn't required.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6to4

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Re:Reasons for servers to support IPv6 by fishtacos on Saturday January 29, 2022 @11:17AM (#30127495)
That's exactly what it is. There is always a proxy, which negates part of the argument, but is a very useful tool in transitioning over the next 2 other decades at least... the way this is going.
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Re:Reasons for servers to support IPv6 by Dagger2 on Saturday January 29, 2022 @04:42PM (#30130825)
It definitely wouldn't be 6to4; that requires a v4 address.

It'll be NAT64.

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Re:Reasons for servers to support IPv6 by tolien on Saturday January 29, 2022 @05:38PM (#30131298)
Ah you're right, 6to4's a 1:1 IPV6 to IPv4 translation.
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Re:Reasons for servers to support IPv6 by Dagger2 on Sunday January 30, 2022 @02:41AM (#30134909)
It's a bit more than 1:1. 6to4 tunnels a /48 to every v4 address.
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