My clients are using IPv4 in the USA. Their ISP is not ready for IPv6 yet. My public web server is on only IPv6. It is registered with a DNS Provider(GoDaddy) that is IPv4 and IPv6 enabled. Can my customers reach my web server?
My clients are using IPv4 in the USA. Their ISP is not ready for IPv6 yet. My public web server is on only IPv6. It is registered with a DNS Provider(GoDaddy) that is IPv4 and IPv6 enabled. Can my customers reach my web server?
The short answer is no, IPv4 client cannot connect to IPv6 server directly. However, you have options - you can setup dual-stack proxy in front of your server. This could be your own device (i.e. VPC or Load balancer on Linode, Rackspace or any other dual-stack provider) or you could use service like CloudFlare.
IPv4 and IPv6 are completely different protocols. An IPv4-only client cannot directly connect to an IPv6-only server.
The IPv4-only clients can get a free IPv6 tunnel from places like Hurricane Electric.The clients would need to have hosts which are dual-stacked with both IPv4 and IPv6.