Hi, would it be possible to add an IPv6-capable tracker to the CentOS torrents? Currently the only tracker in the CentOS torrents is torrent.centos.org and it has only an IPv4 address. If you don't want to set up a separate IPv6 tracker for CentOS, you could use ipv6tracker.org in addition to torrent.centos.org.<br />
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Obviously nearly all IPv6-capable peers are also able to connect to IPv4 trackers, so that's not the problem. The problem is how the tracker gets to know the client's IPv6 address if the client connects to the tracker with IPv4. There are BitTorrent protocol extensions that allow the client to include the IPv6 address in the data when connecting to the tracker, but my experience shows that most trackers seem to either not implement those protocol extensions, or intentionally disregard any extra IP address information. By having a tracker with an IPv6 address, the tracker can simply record the source address of the connection.
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