Wouldn't advise turning off ipv6. We are probably getting near the point where some public services will disable or offer v4 as only best effort, and when this happens, your connectivity will be broken for certain things if you disable v6. Heck, it's to the point now where all my home hosted services are v6 only.

The better solution is to just get a VPN that supports ipv6 like airvpn or mullvad. I think pia disables ipv6 while the tunnel is up, which is better than disabling ipv6 altogether.

To validate the tunnel is working properly you can use something like this.

https://ipleak.net/

There is also a Torrent Address detection section, that when you activate it, will provide a magnet link that will show your ip to ensure that it is tunneled properly.

[–] brimnac@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dude, it’ll be a longer time than this guy is going to be on his ISP before he’ll need to worry about ipv6.

OP - feel free to disable it, IMO.

[–] rickdgray@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Seriously; they've been talking about v6 for like 3 decades now. I'll believe it when I see it.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Many ISPs are no longer handing out even 1 public ipv4 address per account, and instead opting for CGnat which further breaks and stratifies the internet.

Tmobile for example is 464xlat which is even worse than cgnat since it requires tampering with dns responses.

Given the situation many ISP are in, most serious companies offering services on the internet have supported ipv6 for a long time now in order to offer the most competitive service possible. And with cloudflare now serving up a large amount of traffic, a lot of all traffic is v6.

Believe it or not, but IPv6 is here and gaining ground.

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[–] Crator@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I actually had to disable ipv6 just because Halo Infinite wouldn't load the UI. A couple websites were unreachable with it on too. Seems like it will still be awhile.

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Mullvad doesn't allow portforwarding anymore iirc

[–] npmstart_pray@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

WireGuard is increasingly popular as far as I can tell. And if I understand correctly, designed more for IPv6.

[–] Noxvento@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I only heard good things about mullvad vpn.

[–] kniescherz@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

I heard they stopped port forwarding though.

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[–] Mikelius@beehaw.org 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Dunno if anyone mentioned it, but if I had to guess, you have a DNS leak. Basically your DNS requests are going through your ISP instead of the VPN, resulting in them knowing where you're going online anyway. Be sure to check for those DNS leaks and setup a custom one if your VPN doesn't offer one. Don't forget, DNS traffic over port 53 is also unencrypted, so unless you force those through the VPN, they could still know where you're going.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 5 points 2 years ago

I had a similar problem where my ipv4 traffic went through the VPN, but for ipv6 it was straight to clearnet

[–] Brochetudo@feddit.de 15 points 2 years ago

So you're effectively blocked from installing some Linux distros? What the fuck

[–] AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 years ago

Try Usenet instead. Or get a seedbox and let that do the torrenting for you. Either you have a DNS leak with your VPN, or they're just guessing your torrenting because of how much traffic you're using all the time. The DNS leak is more likely.

[–] DemSpud@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You also need to force your torrent client to use the VPN network adaptor. You can do this in qBitorrent advanced settings

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where do I find this setting on Deluge?

[–] bakkerthehacker@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Using the ltConfig plugin, there is a force_proxy option

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks! Found the plugin but for some reason Deluge doesn't have access to any of my folders so I can't install it

[–] taurentipper@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What OS are you running?

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

MacOS

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Seedbox.

Make sure your torrent client is using your VPN adapter

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If you are on VPN they cannot know shit. Only that you use a VPN... So either they are detecting the VPN and lying about what they know or you fucked up setting the VPN and the torrentina doesn't go through the VPN.

[–] cccc@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They’ll still see upload/download volumes, speeds and patterns. Just not destinations. That alone could indicate torrent.

[–] whatsarefoogee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That could indicate a lot of things. It would be very difficult to distinguish a torrent from something like cloud folder sync. And that would still be a statistical guess. No ISP is going to go after customers because their VPN traffic is potentially torrent traffic.

Besides, even if they could detect that torrenting is taking place, they will not know what data is being transferred from and to where. It's a meme, but torrents are actually sometimes used for non-copyright infringing data.

[–] dtxer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I was providing Linux distros and Machine Learning datasets some time ago, because official servers where slow. I'm the meme I guess

[–] null@zerobytes.monster 6 points 2 years ago

probably your real non VPN IP leaked

[–] jws_shadotak@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Check ipleak.net to see if there's identifiable info coming through. Use their torrent check as well.

[–] updawg@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I torrent on a seedbox and then download to my local machine with rsync. ISP shouldn't care about an ssh connection.

[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do you use a seed box service or how does it work?

[–] updawg@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use ultra seedbox, but there are plenty of other companies you can buy from

[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks!

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

You basically have a remote server, usually a cloud or bare metal, where you do all your torrenting. It's fairly easy, as there are plenty of clients with web UI like Transmission that can be setup super easily via Docker. Make sure to protect it somehow though. Or use a torrent CLI tool and do everything via SSH.

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[–] JohnSwanFromTheLough@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cheeky fuckers telling you no bittorrent at all is allowed. They're banning protocols now...

[–] CVGPi@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Because some idiot isps decided that torrenting is considered serving media/files to others and is thus running a server and thus require you to use Business plans that cost 5x as much.

[–] sum_yung_gai@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I have a raspberry pi. Does anyone have a good guide on setting up a raspberry pi for secure torrenting from my home?

[–] downpunxx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

your VPN provider, sucks, and is leaking, so they can see all your traffic, and sue you for it, after they cancel your service. get a better VPN provider like NordVPN, or another major, and STOP using whatever the hell VPN you're using now, it might already be too late

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