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On 2024-02-06 10:16, Rob van der Putten wrote:
On 05/02/2024 18:32, Antony Stone wrote:

On Monday 05 February 2024 at 17:32:51, Rob van der Putten wrote:


On 05/02/2024 17:16, Dieter Bloms wrote:
On Mon, Feb 05, Rob van der Putten wrote:
After upgrading Squid from 3 to 5 the percentage of IPv6 reduced from
61% to less then 1%.
Any ideas?

yes, since squid5 the happy eyeball algorithm as described in rfc 8305
is used.
If your ipv4 connectivity is better than ipv6 than ipv4 is used.

I'm not quite sure how this is established. It prefers IPv4 even when
the IPv6 ping is slightly smaller.

I believe ping (ICMP) timings are irrelevant.  The client (squid in this case) does a DNS lookup for the hostname's A and AAAA records,

A before AAAA. Bind responds within the same millisecond.

If Squid sends two DNS queries, then the first DNS answer seen/processed by Squid will normally trigger the first (called "primary") TCP connection establishment attempt. A "spare" connection attempt may or may not happen a bit later. DNS cache and persistent connections may play their natural role.


then makes two
simultaneous HTTP connections to the server (one IPv4, on IPv6) and whichever one responds first *by HTTP* is then regarded as being the best way to route traffic thereafter.

I do not see Squid opening two connections simultaneously and then closing one. It's just one connection.

What you see matches Squid code (and the Happy Eyeballs RFC/intent). As I said in my earlier response, it is easy to misinterpret Antony's high0-level summary. Please do not use it for low-level triage. See my response for details.


HTH,

Alex.

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