IPv6 and IPv4 handling by MNs...?

camosoul

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I've noticed, and not surprisingly, that my IPv6 nodes always fail to communicate with MNs listed by IPv4.

So, how is it working when the overwhelming bulk of the network is IPv4? Is there risk of islanding? Le fork? There are fewer than 100 MNs reporting on dashninja.pl when I regexp search "::"

My nodes maintain about 80 connections, when maxconnections=256. Again, this isn't surprising.

Are there nodes that are bridging?

Is it possible that two bind arguments are issued on some of these smart people's MNs? One to their IPv4 address and one to their IPv6 address?

If so, it might add tot he robustness of the network for all who have both an IPv4 and an IPv6 available to each server, to modify their dash.conf files to that effect. It wouldn't matter which address was declared in the colde masternode.conf, eh?

Just guessing from my observations... May a smart person correct me if my head is up my ass.
 
I have no time right now to check the code how it's done and I don't have a debug.log at hand, but judging from the traffic-log my IPv6 nodes seem to connect to 75% IPv4 nodes and to 25% IPv6 nodes.
So, it looks as if a node has a IPv6 AND a IPv4 network interface it connects to both.

BTW, a IPv6 address does not neccesarily have a "::" in the address.
 
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