Does the Gaytorrent tracker support IPv6?
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I was wondering if the tracker announces your IPv6 address to peers so they can download from your pc? Also when I download I am seem to be connected to Ipv4 addresses only. Does the gaytorrent tracker support IPv6?
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IPv4 & IPv6 are both IP addresses that are binary numbers. Comparing IPv6 vs IPv4, IPv4 is 32 bit binary number while IPv6 is 128 bit binary number address. IPv4 address are separated by periods while IPv6 address are separated by colons. IPv4 is a 32-Bit IP Address.
https://www.guru99.com/difference-ipv4-vs-ipv6.html
https://www.thousandeyes.com/learning/techtorials/ipv4-vs-ipv6
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@lovetwinks said in Does the Gaytorrent tracker support IPv6?:
I was wondering if the tracker announces your IPv6 address to peers so they can download from your pc? Also when I download I am seem to be connected to Ipv4 addresses only. Does the gaytorrent tracker support IPv6?
The DNS entries for tracker.gaytorrent.ru and tracker.gaytorrent.tw both resolve to IPv4 addresses only...
So, unless someone wants to share the IPv6 addresses privately, the answer is a solid no... the trackers are not reachable via IPv6.
If you ARE using IPv6, there should be no issue ALSO connecting to IPv4 addresses.... the translation mechanisms are well established and high performing.
I must say that I laugh at the aggressive way some people are for or against IPv6... it's just a different addressing scheme.
I also laugh at companies (esp larger ones) insisting that their LANs switch to IPv6! I've never heard any argument about IPv6 that wasn't based on the premise that "we're running out of IPv4 addresses... but that's only public Internet addresses! IP addresses for LANs are re-used all the time (probably 50% of all users on this system have an IP address in the 192.168.0.x or 192.168.1.x range... that's 10's of thousands of users, and only 500 available addresses, no? Well... NO - because those are LAN addresses... no one OUTSIDE of your LAN uses those addresses... when you "get to the Internet" your router "changes" your address to your "public" IP address.
NOTE: This is why, when you have roommates & you're all on gaytorrent.ru, you get flagged for having multiple accounts! You're all using the same public IP address!
