Re:Apple and IPv6 – Happy Eyeballs
by chimeracoder on Friday July 10, 2015 @02:56PM
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> If they do, I feel like that would be very surprising behavior that should be considered a bug,
Not really. Since VPNs have many different purposes (privacy is only one, and arguably not even the most common one), disabling all IPv6 traffic whenever a v4-only VPN is enabled may be a bad default for other use cases. In fact, I would be rather surprised if they did this (though pleasantly surprised).
Re:Apple and IPv6 – Happy Eyeballs
by X-Istence on Friday July 10, 2015 @03:53PM
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They don't do this, it follows the route tables for the appropriate protocol. If you are v4 VPN connected the VPN overwrites the route table, but v6 will be unencumbered.
Not really. Since VPNs have many different purposes (privacy is only one, and arguably not even the most common one), disabling all IPv6 traffic whenever a v4-only VPN is enabled may be a bad default for other use cases. In fact, I would be rather surprised if they did this (though pleasantly surprised).