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by tsimionescu 861 days ago
Why should every application be aware of whether it is running on a v4 or v6 network? If the application merely wants to connect to an external service, that is firmly in the OS's job to decide.

As a user, if ipv6 is flaky today, I want one central place to configure for ipv4 only, I don't want to go and change every application'settings only to revert that tomorrow.