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0 pointsmxuribe1y ago0 comments

The (above) shared url leveraging the cloudflare.com domain name seems to show ip v6 address, while I've noticed that the following defaults to showing ip v4 address: https://1.1.1.1/cdn-cgi/trace

Pick your poison as you wish - either is great! :-)

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codetrotter1y ago

I’d pick the one that supports IPv6 and then make two separate requests to it. One request over IPv4 and one over IPv6.

  curl -4 https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace

  curl -6 https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace

Also the reason that the 1.1.1.1 one shows only IPv4 address is because 1.1.1.1 is itself an IPv4 address. So any connection to it will have to be using IPv4.

tcfhgj1y ago

could you not retrieve your ipv6 directly from the system?

codetrotter1y ago

Yes, but getting it in a response from an external server means I don’t have to be specific about which interface to get the IPv6 address of and so on.

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0 pointsmxuribe1y ago0 comments

The (above) shared url leveraging the cloudflare.com domain name seems to show ip v6 address, while I've noticed that the following defaults to showing ip v4 address: https://1.1.1.1/cdn-cgi/trace

Pick your poison as you wish - either is great! :-)

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codetrotter1y ago

I’d pick the one that supports IPv6 and then make two separate requests to it. One request over IPv4 and one over IPv6.

  curl -4 https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace

  curl -6 https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace

Also the reason that the 1.1.1.1 one shows only IPv4 address is because 1.1.1.1 is itself an IPv4 address. So any connection to it will have to be using IPv4.

tcfhgj1y ago

could you not retrieve your ipv6 directly from the system?

codetrotter1y ago

Yes, but getting it in a response from an external server means I don’t have to be specific about which interface to get the IPv6 address of and so on.

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse