Solved IPv4 & IPv6 support

[Daniel_Dog]

Helle everyone,

I am currently planning the roll-out for support of IPv6 on our servers.
We have always supported IPv4 and we will keep supporting it but we would like to also support IPv6 in addition to IPv4 for all of our customers.

Our DirectAdmin panels are recent enough that they support IPv6 out of the box.
But since I have never used IPv6, I am still figuring thinks out and I also have some questions about it.

Here are my questions:
1. Does all the software DirectAdmin uses also support IPv6? (Like NS, Apache, Database, ect.)
2. Does any software needs additional configuring to start working and listening on IPv6 in addition to IPv4?
3. Is setting an A record for all the IPv4 IPs and an AAAA record for all the IPv6 IPs with the same (sub)domain the correct way to support both IPv4 and IPv6?
4. Is it possible to add an IPv6 IP as a server IP instead of a shared IP since every user and software needs to be able to use that IPv6 IP. (Same as the one IPv4 IP)

And if you have some other advice please also comment it down below. It will be appreciate since I am still new to IPv6.

 

[Aar]

I self recently converted a server to IPv6 support, and that went really smoothly after I first entered the AAAA records in the external DNS panel. In :2222/CMD_IP_MANAGER I was able to set this (admin).

 

[ikkeben]

2. Does any software needs additional configuring to start working and listening on IPv6 in addition to IPv4?

Firewall (csf) for example.
And all the parts for mail as spf records , reverse dns and so on.

Sofar i know you can have more and different ipv6 , though they have same ipv4 right? You have/can to create a (fake) server subdomain for that for user so you have a unique domain for reverse ipv6 then

 

[Active8]

1. Does all the software DirectAdmin uses also support IPv6? (Like NS, Apache, Database, ect.)

Yes

2. Does any software needs additional configuring to start working and listening on IPv6 in addition to IPv4?

Link them to your IP4, make the necessary AAAA records in your NS, and rebuild your DA to be sure everything is complied right + rDNS

3. Is setting an A record for all the IPv4 IPs and an AAAA record for all the IPv6 IPs with the same (sub)domain the correct way to support both IPv4 and IPv6?

If you set your IPv6 NS records for your server properly this will be used for all the new users automatically.

4. Is it possible to add an IPv6 IP as a server IP instead of a shared IP since every user and software needs to be able to use that IPv6 IP. (Same as the one IPv4 IP)

Yes and if you want to give particular IPv6 to an user put it on their account and enable this in the domain settings