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Opened Jul 14, 2011 by Trac@tracbot

Connections with IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses bypass transproxy

A user (DEplan on #guardianproject) reported that Gibberbot was using his real IP despite Orbot's transproxy being turned on; further research led to the conclusion that recent releases of Android seem to use IPv4-mapped IPv6 adresses for a large portion of connections. For examples, please see http://pastebin.com/Z4KDDq40. These connections completely bypass transproxy.

I am not yet sure about the circumstances under which Android employs these addresses.

The problems in finding a solution are that Android usually does not include ip6tables (though Orbot could simply package that) and kernels do usually not include IPv6 netfilter modules. The latter is a major issue, since Orbot can't package modules for every single kernel a user might be running.

As a side note, IPv6 does not support NAT (which is what transproxying is based on).

I'll try to figure out what triggers this behaviour of Android and find possible solutions (using sysctl to disable IPv6 does not solve it).

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Reference: legacy/trac#3595