In reply to a post by billford:

I don't understand this... all seems to be working fine except that I can't connect to idnet.com over IPv6.

I tried a ping6 to it and got "nodename nor servname provided, or not known”

But I'm not sure I've ever done that before (never needed to), nor do I recall ever checking which protocol I connected with, so there's an unknown in the system

The router is set to get its DNS from the ISP, the iMac uses the router. Rebooting both the router and the iMac makes no difference, nor does changing the DNS to 8.8.8.8 (which I think I did correctly, DNS isn't my strong point )

Any suggestions?

I'm seeing the same thing but my laptop is falling back to IPv4 so it doesn't matter. I've just checked my own domain and it can be pinged from an external tool (both IPv4 and 6) so that looks fine. Did IDNet.com originally have an IPv6 address? It looks to me like they just don't at the moment.

Edited by Andrue (Mon 21-Oct-24 08:43:26)

It wasn't a problem for me, mine just used IPv4 instead. It just didn't "feel" right... and anyway, it seems OK this morning. IDNet main site is now IPv6 and the speedtest runs both protocols successfully.

A ping6 still fails with the same message, but it's quite possible that it always did. Zero issue.

Did IDNet.com originally have an IPv6 address? It looks to me like they just don't at the moment.

Agree with that, it's what I'd expect if an AAAA record went missing during maintenance... hardly seems likely though.

I never checked before the recent goings-on but this morning the main IDNet site is opening using IPv6 while the customer portal is only seeing IPv4.

https://ipv6-test.com/ is saying that IPv6 is not supported on my connection but http://v6.testmyipv6.com/ says I am connecting by IPv6.

All very strange.

In reply to a post by GonePostal:

I never checked before the recent goings-on but this morning the main IDNet site is opening using IPv6 while the customer portal is only seeing IPv4.

I hadn't tried the portal, but I get the same. However, looking at my login history, I think it always has been. Just as the customer forum has- it's not too unusual for "sub-sites" of IPv6-capable sites to be IPv4 only. Presumably they're on different servers.

In reply to a post by GonePostal:

https://ipv6-test.com/ is saying that IPv6 is not supported on my connection but http://v6.testmyipv6.com/ says I am connecting by IPv6.

ipv6-test shows OK on mine... so yes, that's a bit strange. But it sometimes happens here on tbb, especially after a disconnect/reconnect for any reason- the speedtest and What's my IP won't show my IPv6 address, but I connect to the forums and the main site using it and the BQM shows no issues! The system sometimes seems to take a while to sort itself out for some reason, but I've no idea which bit of it!


eta- To me, the most likely culprits seem to be a cache issue somewhere or maybe DNS propagation, but my understanding of IPv6 is minimal at best (it makes my brain hurt ) so it's quite likely to be something else entirely...

Edited by billford (Mon 21-Oct-24 10:52:53)