Connect to FB using IPV6 about fritzconnection

[lucasff]

❯ host fritz.box
fritz.box has address 192.168.178.1
fritz.box has IPv6 address fd00::2e3a:fdff:fe88:8422
fritz.box has IPv6 address 2003:ec:370b:2f00:2e3a:fdff:fe88:8422

did you try?

[kbr]

With ping6 it's possible to ping the box, but internally fritzconnection uses requests. I don't know whether requests provides ipv6 connections.

[maribert]

It actually does. I just tried it. If you put your literal IP address into square brackets, it should work, like so:

fh = FritzHosts(address='[fd00:0:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx]', password='yyyyyyy')

or

fh = FritzHosts(address='[%s]' % fs.external_ipv6, password='yyyyyyyy') (if you have a valid FritzStatus object called "fs").

[kbr]

At first I thought you found a serious security bug because of using an external ipv6 address. This is not possible with ipv4 at all. Fortunately for ipv6 this does just work in the local network and not by an external access (I've checked it!).

[kbr]

Like to close this because it is kind of discussion. Btw. github now has discussions :)