On 04/10/17 05:33, Stephen Morris wrote: > Thanks Rick, am I correct in understanding that you are saying that > even though I have IPv6 set to link-local, that IPv6 is still being > attempted across the internet gateway, and in my case because my ISP > doesn't support IPv6, I am assuming those packets would be rejected > and hence the system would fall back to IPv4, or is it the case that > IPv6 is tried for every transmission, which would then make internet > access horribly inefficient?
No. The link-local addresses are not route-able. They cannot traverse routers. Any DNS response with a IPv6 address will not be utilized. So, you wouldn't get any IPv6 traffic attempting to go out the WAN path. -- Fedora Users List - The place to go to get others to do the work for you _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
