We just need IPV4-IPV6 conversation system to for an ISP that has ran out of ipv4 . So we need to minimize IPV4 usage with them . Thanks > On Feb 19, 2020, at 5:33 PM, Alex Rousskov <rousskov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2/19/20 8:47 AM, Ahmad Alzaeem wrote: > >> Is there an option for squid to use IPV6 for outgoing and always skip >> IPV4 of websites resolving address ? > > AFAIK, there is no such option. You might be able to fake it by denying > requests on IPv4-destined connections (via Squid ACLs and/or at the OS > level), in hope that requests on those denied connections will be > reforwarded, but I would not recommend this clumsy approach. > > However, it is easy to add a DNS forwarder that would immediately > respond to all Squid A queries with an empty set of IPv4 addresses. If > you cannot configure BIND/etc. to do that, then it would only take a few > lines of code to write such a forwarder in Perl/etc. using existing DNS > resolver libraries -- you do not need a generic forwarder; only > something that can handle Squid queries... > > What are you going to do with sites that have no IPv6 addresses? > > Alex. > _______________________________________________ > squid-users mailing list > squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users
