Questions tagged [ipv6]

IPv6, the successor to the widely used IPv4, is a key protocol that plays a crucial role in the functioning of the Internet. It represents the next phase in Internet Protocol technology, offering improved capabilities and addressing issues present in its predecessor.

Is it possible to use node.js, express, and socket.io together with ipv6 compatibility

Below is a snippet of my code: var gzippo = require('gzippo'); var app = require('express').createServer() , io = require('socket.io').listen(app); io.enable('browser client gzip'); io.set('transports', [ 'websocket' ]); app.use(gzippo.staticGzip ...

IPv6 with Socket.IO (Updated January 2013)

I am in need of utilizing Socket.IO and its client to establish a connection between two Node.js servers via an IPv6 network. It was mentioned one year back that this could not be done due to address parsing issues with the client. However, it seems that ...

The output of server.address() method in Node.js is ::

My memory serves me right, a few days back it was showing "localhost". I'm puzzled as to what altered server.address().address to now return double colons (::). According to my research, it seems to be returning an IPv6 address (::) because it's ...