IPB185: When IPv6 VPN and DNS Don’t Cooperate

09/10/2025 17 min
IPB185: When IPv6 VPN and DNS Don’t Cooperate

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Sometimes weirdness occurs within DNS if you’re on an IPv4 network and you connect to a dual-stack or v6-only VPN. Maybe the browser doesn’t connect, but you can still send pings, or vice versa. Is the OS getting confused about which stack and which order of interfaces to request services? Is the weird behavior being... »

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