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A couple months ago I got a new router and some stuff didn’t work until I turned off ipv6 (I don’t recall what, exactly)

I tried that solution early because when I first got Google Fiber the Amazon store website didn’t load, on any machine in our house, until I turned off ipv6. If stuff tries to route over ipv6, it doesn’t work, has been my entire experience with the protocol on the open internet (private networks seem Ok)

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Next time try: https://test-ipv6.com/

If you get 10/10 here everything should work. Most likely your issue was a firewall rule on the IPv6 part, or a misconfigured DNS server (only returning A records)

My home connection fails because it’s disabled (of course).

Kicked my phone over to my T-Mobile cell connection. Finds that I have an ipv6 address, but dies on one of the first tests.

It’s 2024 and I have two major US ISPs available and neither will let me reliably use IPv6 unless I’m on a vpn and the addresses are all private ones that don’t (logically) route to the Internet.

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