While I applaud PIA's blocking of IPv6 to prevent leaks in the native app, the real solution is to support IPv6 directly. I have to connect through work's VPN so I can't use the native app. When will IPv6 support come online?
The problem here is that most ISPs do not fully support IPv6 and they do still support IPv4. So it would be worthless to switch the VPN over to using IPv6 for only a few to benefit and the rest to be abandoned.
But pressure is mounting on the ISPs to finally remake their networks to something approaching modern.
Actually some ISPs have already abandoned IPv4 entirely and only support IPv6. My own ISP tried to trick me years ago when they first "started" their IPv6 side of the service.
They stopped provisioning IPv4 DNS resolvers years ago for anyone using a DOCSIS 2.0 modem. Sure I could save up and spend the money to get a DOCSIS 3.0 modem, but I am happy with this and the bandage of DNSCrypt to repair the service.
In your posts about IPv6 so far there seems to be a type of underlying 'denial fear' type of tone, so i'm curious. There would not be a "only a few to benefit and the rest to be abandoned" thing - what makes you think this?
Its nothing to be afraid of and its here already and bigger than what you think.
Then there are the numerous patches to fix IPv6. Personally I would ditch modern DNS now rather than deal with the ever increasing problems with legacy systems like it.
But it is still essential to the modern Internet, so it needs instead to be replaced with a catch all solution with programmable responses for every address. Until this happens, I will probably remain using DNSCrypt as a solution. But it is rather manual at some times and to some sites. *Edit* "to some sites" meaning the resolver failed to reply. Changing resolvers to another good one usually works.
Usually the only times I have trouble are when trying to buy things online. I get sent through a security nightmare forced upon me by my bank in order to use my debit card. It turns out they have my DNS location tracked regardless of if I use DNSCrypt or a stock unencrypted DNS. *Edit* I switch between several international servers for DNS requests. So my bank is bitching about international transactions.
Oh, and something about Derek Zimmer for the resident 'loon? Nope. Still not happening 'Bob.
Not getting a response from an employee is disappointing, but I would like to follow up by pointing out that we are at the end of the chicken/egg stage of IPv6:
22% of Google's US traffic (which I suspect is the majority of PIA's market) is IPv6.
A MUCH larger fraction of connections are IPv6 capable.
At least 30%
Comcast claims 70% of its installs are IPv6 capable has, at ~50% of the US market. That suggests 30% of US internet have access to IPv6 through Comcast alone but that the local networking equipment is using IPv4 by default.
I am still waiting on IPv7. Basically the idea is to take IPv6 and remove all backwards compatibility. This would force providers to pick one or the other. At first most would pick IPv4 and IPv6, but as time goes on, the apparent exhaustion of IPv4 would push providers to stop allowing IPv4 at all, and seeing IPv7 as a way to do that.
I am still waiting on IPv7. Basically the idea is to take IPv6 and remove all backwards compatibility. This would force providers to pick one or the other. At first most would pick IPv4 and IPv6, but as time goes on, the apparent exhaustion of IPv4 would push providers to stop allowing IPv4 at all, and seeing IPv7 as a way to do that.
What are you talking about? The OS chooses which protocol to use, usually based on speed. IPv6 improves on the way IPv4 was designed to reduce overhead and excludes hacks like NAT, but they are entirely different protocols.
I am still waiting on IPv7. Basically the idea is to take IPv6 and remove all backwards compatibility. This would force providers to pick one or the other. At first most would pick IPv4 and IPv6, but as time goes on, the apparent exhaustion of IPv4 would push providers to stop allowing IPv4 at all, and seeing IPv7 as a way to do that.
What are you talking about? The OS chooses which protocol to use, usually based on speed. IPv6 improves on the way IPv4 was designed to reduce overhead and excludes hacks like NAT, but they are entirely different protocols.
PIA and almost every other VPN is IPv4 only. The OS you use has no say
in this. The VPN actually lacks the IPv6 protocol. (Intentionally.)
IPv6 is inferior since it opens the door to many security and privacy risks. And no, speed plays no role in the different protocols. IPv4 is just as fast as IPv6.
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But pressure is mounting on the ISPs to finally remake their networks to something approaching modern.
They stopped provisioning IPv4 DNS resolvers years ago for anyone using a DOCSIS 2.0 modem. Sure I could save up and spend the money to get a DOCSIS 3.0 modem, but I am happy with this and the bandage of DNSCrypt to repair the service.
But it is still essential to the modern Internet, so it needs instead to be replaced with a catch all solution with programmable responses for every address. Until this happens, I will probably remain using DNSCrypt as a solution. But it is rather manual at some times and to some sites.
*Edit* "to some sites" meaning the resolver failed to reply. Changing resolvers to another good one usually works.
Usually the only times I have trouble are when trying to buy things online. I get sent through a security nightmare forced upon me by my bank in order to use my debit card. It turns out they have my DNS location tracked regardless of if I use DNSCrypt or a stock unencrypted DNS.
*Edit* I switch between several international servers for DNS requests. So my bank is bitching about international transactions.
Oh, and something about Derek Zimmer for the resident 'loon? Nope. Still not happening 'Bob.
PIA and almost every other VPN is IPv4 only. The OS you use has no say in this. The VPN actually lacks the IPv6 protocol. (Intentionally.)
IPv6 is inferior since it opens the door to many security and privacy risks. And no, speed plays no role in the different protocols. IPv4 is just as fast as IPv6.