[ipv6-wg] IPv4-mapped addresses in AAAA records (was: RIPE 88, presentations and a co chair change..)

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 02:34:41PM +1100, Michael Richardson wrote:
> My take home from this github incident is that one should do IPv6 deployment
> first, and then treat IPv4 as a subset via mapped IPv4 addresses.
> (Open)SSH had been using the mapped addresses for ages, and they showed up
> that way for ages.  It has stopped for unknown reasons.

I guess that someone was upset with the way they showed up in the logs...

(OpenVPN has extra code to ensure that "we received an IPv4 connection
on a dual-stack IPv6 socket" gets logged the same as "IPv4 on IPv4 socket",
because that reduces the number of confused users down...)

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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