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Re:Going IPv6 Only by rekoil on Sunday February 20, 2022 @08:03AM (#30405349)
I'm sorry but "happy eyeballs"?
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Re:Going IPv6 Only by zinekeller on Sunday February 20, 2022 @08:19AM (#30405452)
Yeah, the name is straight from marketing (implying happy people seeing a fast website). It simply means that clients detect which is the better connection (whether IPv4 or IPv6) rather than naive IPv6-first or IPv4-first. RFC Standards about this: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6555 and https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8305

Unfortunately OkHttp is naively priotising IPv6 regardless if the IPv6 connection is good or not.

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Re:Going IPv6 Only by tadfisher on Sunday February 20, 2022 @12:19PM (#30407280)
The latest release now has a Happy Eyeballs implementation.
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