Handle IPv6 IPs

[Sowiedu]

Hi,
My ISP uses a dslite tunnel and therefore portforwarding for IPv4 adresses doesn't work.
I manually set my specific (global, not link local) IPv6 address on the lnd.conf for now but a script such as yours for IPv6 addresses would be beneficial I guess.

I'm not sure how often these get refreshed and if this is at all necassary to automate, can you chime in? the ipinfo.io doesn't seem to have the same response to IPv6 as you can get with your script for IPv4.

[robclark56]

You will have to find some mechanism (e.g. https://www.myip.com/ or similar) to get your public IP V6 address.

Then edit the respective file to dynamically update the IP address in lnd.

[The latest LND has a mechanism to do this automatically. I have not had time to upgrade, so not sure how well it works and I don't have IPV6 addresses so can't test].

I will leave this open because if you find a solution, I can update my files with your solution.