IPv6 is the successor of the currently used Internet Protocol (IPv4, IP).

Bittornado, an improved version of the original Python-based Bittorrent client, supports IPv6. You need to add the following options to your normal parameters.

–ipv6_enabled 1 –ipv6_binds_v4 0

You need at least version 0.3.11 to use it.

ABC is supposed to work with IPv6. In my tests it connects to the tracker just fine, but the incoming socket is opened IPv4-only and no outgoing connections to known seeds or peers are made.

Unfortunately, due to the way clients are registered in Bittorrent the tracker needs to be reachable with IPv6 as well. Currently the only available tracker software is the version of bttrack included in the Bittornado package.

I have started an IPv6-only Bittorrent-tracker at http://bttrack.birkenwald.de:6969. I'm currently seeding several ISO-images of Linux distributions, for example OpenSuSE, Debian and Gentoo.

If you want to seed your own content (only open-source please), create a new torrent-file and use http://bttrack.birkenwald.de:6969/announce as tracker URL, for example

btmakemetafile http://bttrack.birkenwald.de:6969/announce SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-CD1.iso

If you think the content you have shared is interesting for a broader audience, please consider sending the torrent to berni@birkenwald.de, I'll add it to the list then.