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Incorrect or missing information? IPv6

SABnzbd is fully IPv6 enabled: it can download from IPv6 enabled news servers, and you can access SABnzbd’s web-interface over IPv6.

Download from IPv6 enabled news servers

SABnzbd will automatically use IPv6 if available when connecting to news servers. Based on Happy Eyeballs, SABnzbd will choose the quickest connection to a news server: via IPv4 or via IPv6.

See IPv6 Staging for additional IPv6 features that are not yet enabled by default.

Access SABnzbd’s web-interface over IPv6

To access SABnzbd’s web-interface over IPv6, you need to fill out :: in General at the field “SABnzbd Host”. Press Save Changes, and then restart SABnzbd.

As a first test, you should be able to access SABnzbd via http://[::1]:8080/. If that works you can fill out the public IPv6 address of your system running SABnzbd, so something like http://[2001:dead:beef:cafe:123:4567:b055]:8080/

Access SABnzbd over IPv6 from your LAN without login

To access SABnzbd over IPv6 from your LAN without login, you can fill out your IPv6 network prefix in the local_ranges setting on the Special page of the Config, so something like 2001:dead:beef:cafe::/64 (replace with your actual prefix).

Access SABnzbd over IPv6 from the outside world

To access SABnzbd over IPv6 from the outside world, you need to configure your router to allow incoming connections on the SABnzbd port (default is 8080) for the local IPv6 addresses.