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firefox mobile cant access ipv6 sites directly (monero.town)
submitted 9 months ago by shortwavesurfer@monero.town to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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If i put say 123.123.123.123 into firefox desktop or mobile it will try to load a webpage from that host. If i put http://[ipv6] into desktop it works as well. If i do the same on mobile it sends it to my search engine as a query.

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[-] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

What does that have to do with anything?

It's only once you visit a website that it matters whether you're on an IPv6 network. OP isn't visiting the website at all; they're just typing the address and being taken to their search engine

[-] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 2 points 9 months ago

Because if OP was trying to access an IP v6 address from an IPv4 network that wouldn't work. It wasn't obvious to me where the issue lies.

[-] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think your misunderstanding comes from the fact that "wouldn't work" can mean a lot of things, and you didn't know quite what it meant

If

  1. you're not on an IPv6 network,
  2. you enter the IPv6 address of a website into the address bar and
  3. the browser attempts to load that website (not a search engine),

then the connection will time out:

OP never got to step 3, which indicates a problem with the browser

this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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