IPv6 bitcoin support now live
3 messages, 12 to 27 May 2012. Started by Jeff Garzik.
Jeff Garzik, Pieter Wuille, Peter Todd
sipa just pushed out IPv6 support to bitcoin/bitcoin.git, and we have a few IPv6 nodes live on the network already.
If you have IPv6, please pull the latest bitcoin and test!
(and if you do not yet have IPv6, visit https://www.sixxs.net/ and get some)
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti•com> wrote:
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> sipa just pushed out IPv6 support to bitcoin/bitcoin.git, and we have > a few IPv6 nodes live on the network already. > > If you have IPv6, please pull the latest bitcoin and test!
Since yesterday, my DNS seeder (running at seed.bitcoin.sipa.be) also crawls the IPv6 network, and returns corresponding AAAA records. Hopefully this helps IPv6 nodes to find eachother.
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 03:14:40PM +0200, Pieter Wuille wrote:
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> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti•com> wrote: > > sipa just pushed out IPv6 support to bitcoin/bitcoin.git, and we have > > a few IPv6 nodes live on the network already. > > > > If you have IPv6, please pull the latest bitcoin and test! > > Since yesterday, my DNS seeder (running at seed.bitcoin.sipa.be) also > crawls the IPv6 network, and returns corresponding AAAA records. > Hopefully this helps IPv6 nodes to find eachother.
I can confirm this seems to work quite well now. I tried running an IPv6-only node a few days ago, and with the default seeds it couldn't start up and sync with the network unless I manually created a dual-net node and manually added it. Now things work just fine out of the box and last I checked I had 5 peers.