Title: IPv6 ready?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# IPv6 ready?

 *  Resolved [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipv6-ready-1/)
 * Hi,
 * Six months ago, someone asked if BP was IPv6-ready : [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipv6-ready](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipv6-ready)
 * There, the reply was that it was scheduled for the first half of 2014. I’ve checked
   the changelog, and can’t see any mention… is it?
 * Many thanks,
    David
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/bruteprotect/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bruteprotect/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Sam Hotchkiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samhotchkiss/)
 * (@samhotchkiss)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipv6-ready-1/#post-5047574)
 * Hi David– Yes and no. We technically do support IPv6, we do have IPv6 addresses
   in our DB, which indicates to me that it is working, but we have NOT explicitly
   tested it, so we aren’t officially saying “yes” yet.
 * If you’re interested in helping us test that out, we’d certainly appreciate it!
 *  Thread Starter [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipv6-ready-1/#post-5047576)
 * Hi Sam,
 * I’ve not got IPv6 to my desktop, but I have to some servers, so if I can do something
   to help using those then do let me know.
 * Presumably if you’ve not done anything explicit for IPv6 yet, then BP will just
   be blocking single addresses? If so, then that’ll not be giving any real protection
   against brute force attacks – because with IPv6 addresses in the same /64 are
   from the same machine. So, if BP is just looking at single addresses, then an
   attacker can run through approximately 18 billion billion (1.8 * 10^19) login
   attempts launched from the same host before it needs to use any IPv6 address 
   more than once and get noticed by BP… and if anyone starts launching brute login
   attempts over IPv6 using this potential then presumably the database at BP HQ
   will fill up and melt before this happens as well!
 * David
 *  Plugin Contributor [Stephen Quirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdquirk/)
 * (@sdquirk)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipv6-ready-1/#post-5047606)
 * David,
    BruteProtect now supports IPv6!
 * Thanks,
    Stephen
 *  Thread Starter [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipv6-ready-1/#post-5047607)
 * Hi Stephen,
 * That’s good to hear. Can you say anything more about it? Presumably you are factoring
   out the host bits? Anything other assumptions being made?
 * David

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