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Re: [tor-relays] is it possible to relay using ipv6?



Unfortunately, only a small portion of the world is IPV6 capable: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

IPV6 isn't backwards compatible, so literally every hop, skip, and jump on the Internet would need to be upgraded to support it. Many ISPs find it much easier and cheaper to just re-use the older IPV4 addresses.


On Nov 21, 2016 6:30 AM, "teor" <teor2345@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 21 Nov. 2016, at 23:09, Flavio Leitner <fbl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to configure a relay for the first time but I am
> behind a cgnat for IPv4.

Sorry, Tor relays need an IPv4 address to join the network.

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-November/008093.html

> I have a public and open IPv6 though.
> However, ORPort doesn't accept [ipv6]:443

Do you see this warning?

[warn] Configured non-bridge only to listen on an IPv6 address.

You could try setting up an IPv6-only bridge.

> and it doesn't
> automatically bind to :::443 either.

If a relay doesn't know its IPv6 address, it can't tell the rest of the
Tor network. So there's no point binding to all IPv6 addresses.

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2016-November/010938.html

> This is running LEDE tor 0.2.8.9-1.
>
> I couldn't find if worth to run over IPv6 or not.

No, IPv6-only relays won't work.
Tor relays need to be able to connect to every other relay, and (at
least for the foreseeable future) all relays have an IPv4 address.

T

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