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Re: disable IPv6 debian



On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:58:01PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:34:25AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
> > I have an issue with a few websites that seem to hang with ipv6
> 
> If you happen to know their IPv6 addresses and can trust that those
> assignments will remain stable then you may prefer instead to add
> prohibited routes for these, e.g.

Not really. Y! uses both hardware load balancers as well as GSLB (global service
load balancing*). During routine maintenance and updates, both facilities are
used to move traffic to different targets.

> 
> # ip route add prohibit 2001:db8::/32
> 
> Your web browser will then fall back to using the IPv4 results that
> it gets from DNS.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
> 
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* uses DNS to point to different locations.
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