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		fulafel on Aug 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) This would be relevant in v6-only networks, but in practice everyone also runs v4 which and v4 dhcp which gets you dns. (Also there's a DNS option in router advertisements now like subling comment said)

magicalhippo on Aug 14, 2023 [–]

Android ignores any IPv4 DNS address it gets if it gets an IPv6 address. Instead it falls back to Google's own DNS servers. So if you got Android devices in your house, you need to configure a IPv6 DNS server. AFAIK a IPv4 DHCP server can't hand out a IPv6 DNS address.

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