[address-policy-wg] 2007-08 New Policy Proposal (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)
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Mohacsi Janos
mohacsi at niif.hu
Tue Oct 30 20:37:07 CET 2007
- Bittornado, Azureus, Transmission, BTG, Opera builtin torrent client support IPv6. Have a look: http://www.sixxs.net/tools/tracker/clients/ or http://ipv6.niif.hu/index.php?mn=3&sm=5&lg=en Janos Mohacsi Network Engineer, Research Associate, Head of Network Planning and Projects NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY Key 70EF9882: DEC2 C685 1ED4 C95A 145F 4300 6F64 7B00 70EF 9882 On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 30 okt 2007, at 14:39, Carlos Friacas wrote: > >>> Turns out that the newest Azureus (BitTorrent application) supports IPv6. > >> I was not aware that a "somewhat popular" bittorrent client was doing v6... >> I remember that some years ago, some people from 6NET and other projects >> approached the guy which developed the protocol and he sort of refused to >> cooperate in the effort of making it v6 compatible. Then, afaik some people >> developed a patch, but of course that didn't reflect into real usage... :-( > > Hm, the way I understand it is that the original BitTorrent protocol (not the > original client, AFAIK) supported IPv6. However, the protocol was later > streamlined and IPv6 support dropped, I think by other people. There's also > the issue that you must choose one address to tell the tracker, and trackers > may have their own opinions about IPv6 addresses. > > However, these days most BitTorrent clients use dynamic hash tables in > addition to a centralized tracker and I believe IPv6 is used for/through the > DHT. >
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