I wonder how bad search engines would penalize an IPV6 only site, is there any information on it?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      11 year ago

      This guy is talking about dual-stack, and I was talking on IPV6 only, when your site is unavailable for someone that doesn’t have an IPV6 connection

      • @TCB13
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        1 year ago

        Same thing for the search engine. The search engine doesn’t care, it serves full urls based on domain names, not IP addresses thus it is up to the user to have IPv6 or not. What I do know is that their bot seems to pick/prefer IPv6 to index a website if the website has it, I believe the bot isn’t probably even aware of what IP stack it’s using - like any other program it does DNS resolution, gets whatever IP is available and fetches the website.

  • @IphtashuFitz
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    11 year ago

    If a site is ipv6 only then its DNS will only have AAAA records. When an ipv4 client tries to visit the site it will request an A record, which won’t exist. So the browser will just show an error that the site can’t be found.