Minimserver not IPv6 compatible??

[DavidHB]

(05-09-2015 01:18)davide256 Wrote:  And I'd also suggest you study up on how IPv6 routes will always be used first if DNS returns both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

I found your reference to DNS interesting, so I did do some reading. I now understand that IPv6 is more than just a bigger address space; the idea is that each device on every network will have its own unique IP address, and this will get rid of the reserved LAN address space we are used to, and with it NAT and DHCP (though my router provides an option to enable IPv6 in DHCP, which I find confusing; more reading is clearly required).

I also found an amendment to the UPnP Device Architecture (UDA) v 1.1 which seeks to make it compliant with IPv6, and also gives preference to IPv6 where both forms of address are present.

However, what is also clear from my reading is that, where IPv4 can be used, IPv6 implementation is currently patchy at best. I suspect that, while Simon's statement that

the UPnP architecture doesn't support IPv6, only IPv4

may need clarification, it probably represents the real world state of things. If the UPnP AV stack used in your device is IPv4 only, that is really the end of the matter as far as that device is concerned. And that must be the case with millions of DNLA devices currently in use.

A server, even when IPv6 capable, will have to have some means of supporting IPv4 clients. At the same time, while the current IPv4/DHCP/NAT architecture for LANs may be technically messy, sheer inertia is, I suspect, likely to keep it dominant for some time to come.

David