[address-policy-wg] 2007-08 New Policy Proposal (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)

- Bittornado, Azureus, Transmission, BTG, Opera builtin torrent client 
support IPv6.

Have a look:
http://www.sixxs.net/tools/tracker/clients/
or
http://ipv6.niif.hu/index.php?mn=3&sm=5&lg=en


Janos Mohacsi
Network Engineer, Research Associate, Head of Network Planning and Projects
NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY
Key 70EF9882: DEC2 C685 1ED4 C95A 145F  4300 6F64 7B00 70EF 9882

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> On 30 okt 2007, at 14:39, Carlos Friacas wrote:
>
>>> Turns out that the newest Azureus (BitTorrent application) supports IPv6.
>
>> I was not aware that a "somewhat popular" bittorrent client was doing v6...
>> I remember that some years ago, some people from 6NET and other projects 
>> approached the guy which developed the protocol and he sort of refused to 
>> cooperate in the effort of making it v6 compatible. Then, afaik some people 
>> developed a patch, but of course that didn't reflect into real usage... :-(
>
> Hm, the way I understand it is that the original BitTorrent protocol (not the 
> original client, AFAIK) supported IPv6. However, the protocol was later 
> streamlined and IPv6 support dropped, I think by other people. There's also 
> the issue that you must choose one address to tell the tracker, and trackers 
> may have their own opinions about IPv6 addresses.
>
> However, these days most BitTorrent clients use dynamic hash tables in 
> addition to a centralized tracker and I believe IPv6 is used for/through the 
> DHT.
>