IPv6 By Default #6808
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jxs
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Jan 15, 2025
| /// returns true. | ||
| pub fn is_ipv6_supported() -> bool { | ||
| // If IPv6 is supported | ||
| let Ok(std::net::IpAddr::V6(local_ip)) = local_ipv6() else { |
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Description
This enables ipv4 and ipv6 by default in Lighthouse.
However, after finishing this PR, I think maybe this isn't a good idea.
Motivation
IPv6 has been around for quite a few years now and most parts of the internet are supporting it. It is strange that a cutting-edge blockchain such as Ethereum doesn't support it natively. I've tested Lighthouse quite a bit and our recent upgrades should have no problem supporting IPv6. The problem is that we need a few more nodes on our DHT to also support IPv6 for some of the discovery mechanisms to function. So we need to bootstrap the network with a few IPv6 nodes and our original plan was to make lighthouse do this by default if the host system supports a globally routable IPV6 address.
What this PR does
If a user has specified a listening address of
0.0.0.0and their node also has a globally routable IPv6 address (i.e their ISP and router is configured for IPv6, then we also listen on::and go to dual stack mode. This also adds a CLI to disable this default behaviour--disable-ipv6.Why I no longer like this approach
0.0.0.0they may not expect us to secretly also open::and expose those ports when they have not specifically set it. I think if users are exposing ports on their computers they need to do it explicitly rather than us trying to force ipv6 on them.--ip-address ::also to enable dual stack.After some thought I think the best approach is just via education rather than code. We should make announcements and encourage users to support dual stack, rather than set it by default.
I'll leave this PR around in case others feel differently.
Also, this should not be merged until: sigp/discv5#275