If i put say 123.123.123.123 into firefox desktop or mobile it will try to load a webpage from that host. If i put http://[ipv6] into desktop it works as well. If i do the same on mobile it sends it to my search engine as a query.

  • glibg10b@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I think your misunderstanding comes from the fact that “wouldn’t work” can mean a lot of things, and you didn’t know quite what it meant

    If

    1. you’re not on an IPv6 network,
    2. you enter the IPv6 address of a website into the address bar and
    3. the browser attempts to load that website (not a search engine),

    then the connection will time out:

    OP never got to step 3, which indicates a problem with the browser