IPv6 and "directadmin o"

Pzz

Pzz

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Hi!

In search of a way to activate IPv6 I found several tutorials on the internet where I read about the command "directadmin o" , and what output to expect. Like https://support.tilaa.com/hc/en-us/...able-and-assign-IPv6-Addresses-in-DirectAdmin. They all have exactly the same text, and probably copied and copied and copied.

But: the examples there state that I can use "directadmin o" to see if DA is compiled with IPv6 support. And the output given there is not what I see when I do this on my server. And none of the posts tell you what to do if your (my) DA isn't compiled with IPv6.

The output in the tutorial:

Code: 
./directadmin o

Compiled on 'CentOS 8.0 64-Bit'
Compile time: Sep 21 2021 at 19:19:40
Timestamp: '1632251966'
Compiled with IPv6
Static binary: yes
commit sha: 2554f9e1
gettext support: yes

and what I see when I do this:

Code: 
./directadmin o

version: 1.653
commit sha: b9c59274f33aaa5c63dd628cc7b98252e754ea61
OS slug: linux_amd64
detected OS slug: rhel9_amd64
package: directadmin_b9c59274f33aaa5c63dd628cc7b98252e754ea61_linux_amd64.tar.gz
gettext support: yes
gettext path: /usr/local/directadmin/data/lang

Instead of helping me whith my IPv6 questions, this tutorial raises more questions ;)

Can anyone give some info on these ".directadmin o" option?

Thanks!
 
I don't know, I didn't use the ./directadmin o to make ipv6 working on my server.

What ipv6 questions do you have?
 
Hi,

As admin I've these settings:

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But I can't figure out how to get the IP6 to resellers and individual domains.

I read a lot about it but I'm still missing the point I guess....


GJ
 
Pzz said:
And none of the posts tell you what to do if your (my) DA isn't compiled with IPv6.
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So it's compiled with ipv4?
And you want to use ipv6 only now for the users? Is that correct? Or do you want to combine the ipv4 and ipv6?

If you want to use only ipv6 then I don't now fore sure. Should be the same as using ipv4.
If you want to use both, maybe this thread will be of help.

Solved - No AAA ipv6 DNS records on newly setup server

I just setup a vps for a customer. It has 2 ipv4 addresses for the server and 1 ipv6. 1st ipv4 = main ip hostname, ns1 and shared users 2nd ipv4 = for ns2 1 ipv6 = also for hostname and the shared users. At first when I setup a DA server several years ago, ipv6 was automatically enabled and it...
forum.directadmin.com forum.directadmin.com
 
I don't know if " it's compiled with ipv4" . I don't know know to find out, I read " .directadmin o" was the way to check that.

But... Can I recompile Directadmin? How can I do it? And do I need too, to use IPv6?

And of course I start to think why isn't it compiled for IPv6 in the first place? Shouldn't the whole world use this already (besides me) since a year or five...?

Thanks for the link. I don't quite understand the text... Why would I link an IPv6 to an IPv4 address? The whole point of IPv6 is to use IPv6 and not relate it to a IPv4 in DA? It sounds so "houtje touwtje" (a great Dutch expression) but I probably don't get the real point :oops:.

With every question I think of a few new ones....
 
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Pzz said:
And do I need too, to use IPv6?
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Not as far as I know.

Pzz said:
Why would I link an IPv6 to an IPv4 address?
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You don't need to, but that is why I asked what exactly you wanted to do with the ipv6. We have servers and we want to use both the ipv4 and ipv6 to be compatible as possible, which is why we linked the ipv6 to the ipv4.
The whole world should use ipv6 yes but we are still not at that point and I'm sure we will be at least a 5 years further before ipv4 is really gone.
But as far as I know you can also run DA purely on ipv6, however I'm not sure about that.

If you still have an ipv4, i think with the ipswap scrip, you can change it so the main ip will be an ipv6 ip.
As you can see I also still have some uncertainties when it comes to ipv6. ;)

Mabye @Zhenyapan or @jamgames2 know a bit more about working with only ipv6.
 
@Pzz
didn't you notice, it old tutorial ( 2 Years ago ).

Code: 
netstat -lnp | grep 2222

doesn't show any tcp6 ?


If you already assign ipv6 to your server, just follow only "step 1"

Managing IPs | Directadmin Docs

DirectAdmin Knowledge Base
docs.directadmin.com
 
@Richard G
I think, he just want to use ipv6 on Directadmin panel only, but leave webserver like nginx/apache to not include ipv6 by default. There have no explain/text that he talk about to not use ipv4 on Directadmin panel
 
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