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What's the best way to prevent IPv6 from leaking when using Wireguard? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3754933

While experimenting with ProtonVPN's Wireguard configs, I realized that my real IPv6 address was leaking while IPv4 was correctly going through the tunnel. How do I prevent this from happening?

I've already tried adding ::/0 to the AllowedIPs option and IPv6 is listed as disabled in the NetworkManager profile.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Broke: disabling ipv6 because it's causing security holes with software not originally built for it

Woke: disabling ipv6 because hex ip strings are too hard to type

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Honest to Tux, I've never memorized a single IPv6 since its public release; ever.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Well I memorized mine: ::1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Me either. I have a text file on the desktop that I use to copy paste the loopback address on the rare rare times I actually need it lul