Re: Is there a way to stop ipv6 leakage without turning off ipv6?

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On 04/10/17 05:33, Stephen Morris wrote:
> Thanks Rick, am I correct in understanding that you are saying that
> even though I have IPv6 set to link-local, that IPv6 is still being
> attempted across the internet gateway, and in my case because my ISP
> doesn't support IPv6, I am assuming those packets would be rejected
> and hence the system would fall back to IPv4, or is it the case that
> IPv6 is tried for every transmission, which would then make internet
> access horribly inefficient? 


No.  The link-local addresses are not route-able.  They cannot traverse
routers.  Any DNS response with a IPv6 address will not be utilized. 
So, you wouldn't get any IPv6 traffic attempting to go out the WAN path.

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