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

[teor]

> On 26 Nov. 2016, at 21:14, Lluís <2015.msl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> If I didn't understand right, a relay can use IPv6 but it will **not**
> bootstrap unless it is assigned an IPv4 address.
> 
> Does that summarize the discussion ?

Yes.

A relay *must* have an IPv4 address to publish a descriptor.
A relay can also publish an IPv6 address it its descriptor.

Tim

> 
> Cheers
> Lluís
> 
> 
> teor:
>> 
>>> On 23 Nov. 2016, at 02:54, Ralph Seichter <tor-relays-ml at horus-it.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 22.11.16 03:33, teor wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> ...
>>> 
>>>>> ClientPreferIPv6DirPort 1
>>>> 
>>>> This option was introduced and deprecated in the 0.2.8 alpha series,
>>>> it has no effect.
>>> 
>>> That's unexpected. https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en
>>> still lists this option. I went through this manual page for anything
>>> IPv6-related I could find.
>> 
>> Here is the ticket to deprecate that option:
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19704
>> 
>> It's just waiting for someone to write the code and change the manual.
>> 
>> T
>> 
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