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0 pointstolien4y ago0 comments

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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Dagger24y ago· 2 in thread

It definitely wouldn't be 6to4; that requires a v4 address.

It'll be NAT64.

tolienOP4y ago

Ah you're right, 6to4's a 1:1 IPV6 to IPv4 translation.

Dagger24y ago

It's a bit more than 1:1. 6to4 tunnels a /48 to every v4 address.

fishtacos4y ago

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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