Communicating via IPv6-only Networks Using IPv4 Literal Identifiers

摘要

Techniques are disclosed relating to communicating, via IPv6-only networks, with devices on IPv4 networks. In some embodiments, a mobile device stores program instructions executable to: generate a request to access a network server that specifies an IPv4 literal, query a DNS server using a reserved name to determine an IPv6 prefix, synthesize an IPv6 address using the prefix and the IPv4 literal, create a transport layer connection to the network server using the synthesized IPv6 address, and transmit multiple packets using the connection, without re-translating the IPv4 literal for the packets. These per-connection translation techniques may reduce power consumption and/or processing time relative to per-packet translation, in some embodiments.