STORJ Node IPv6 traffic?

[svet0slav]

So I forgot to initially set IPV6 for the STORJ node and deleted the docker container, set up a new one to use the same container name and updated the address option to -e ADDRESS=“sub-domain.domain.tld:28967” after configuring the DNS A record to what the previous setting was and also adding the AAAA record for the IPv6 address. STORJ node is up again, but I do not see any IPv6 traffic. I read that with some STORJ node operators IPv6 accounts for about half their traffic. Seems weird, because I do not see much, yet. How do I verify the node works on IPv6, too, really?

[Stob]

Hi @svet0slav
IPv6 traffic only comes from self hosted gateways, the StorJ hosted gateways are not IPv6 compatible.

Parallel running of IPv6 with IPv4

The storagenode itself support the IPv6 from day 0. There are two problems: not all customers uses IPv6 (it’s important part, because all data transfers are happening between the node and the customer); the Google Cloud still cannot use IPv6 (sic!), thus our satellites, hosted there, cannot communicate via IPv6, but the code itself is allowing to do so. So the solution at the moment - use dual stack if possible (you would have IPv4 and IPv6). Sooner or later our cloud provider will be able to…

@svet0slav

I read that with some STORJ node operators IPv6 accounts for about half their traffic

I hadn’t seen this before, do you know where it was referenced?

[svet0slav]

OK. Thanks! Now I have dual stack, so it should be fine.

@Stob

I hadn’t seen this before, do you know where it was referenced?

In the forum. I do not remember the thread now, but I saw something like that, so I though to add IPv6 support, too.

[BrightSilence]

@svet0slav

I read that with some STORJ node operators IPv6 accounts for about half their traffic.

These were probably old posts. There used to be a test satellite that wasn’t hosted on GCP and supported IPv6. But that has been decommissioned since. There are currently no satellites that support it. That said, can’t hurt to future proof. I run dual stack as well.

[svet0slav]

OK. Thanks a lot! I appreciate it.