Why I Killed IPv6 on my G4-fedora44

Started with something dumb. Facebook wouldn’t load in Vivaldi or Firefox on the desktop. Worked fine on mobile. Figured it was a browser thing at first. Extension, cookies, the usual 💨 . Wasn’t that. why i thought i might need ipv6 Ran a curl test forcing each protocol separately, just to rule stuff in or out: curl -4 -I https://www.facebook.com curl -6 -I https://www.facebook.com IPv4 came back clean. HTTP/2 200, instant. IPv6 flat out refused to connect: ...

July 19, 2026 · 4 min