Lost connection to Flightaware

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
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Help, dont want to lose my days. Upgraded Modems and router for upgraded speed. Was offline for a couple hours. I had to restart PI of course and its being seen on the router but its not connecting to Flight Aware. Here is result of PIAWARE status

pi@piaware:/ $ sudo service piaware status
● piaware.service - FlightAware ADS-B uploader
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/piaware.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2020-02-12 01:02:46 PST; 5min ago
Docs: https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/
Main PID: 459 (piaware)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/piaware.service
├─459 /usr/bin/piaware -p /run/piaware/piaware.pid -plainlog -statusfile /run/piaware/sta
└─657 /usr/lib/piaware/helpers/faup1090 --net-bo-ipaddr localhost --net-bo-port 30005 --s

Feb 12 01:04:01 piaware piaware[459]: reconnecting in 56 seconds…
Feb 12 01:04:57 piaware piaware[459]: Connecting to FlightAware adept server at piaware-ipv6.flighta
Feb 12 01:04:57 piaware piaware[459]: Connection to adept server at piaware-ipv6.flightaware.com/120
Feb 12 01:04:57 piaware piaware[459]: reconnecting in 58 seconds…
Feb 12 01:05:55 piaware piaware[459]: Connecting to FlightAware adept server at piaware-ipv6.flighta
Feb 12 01:05:55 piaware piaware[459]: Connection to adept server at piaware-ipv6.flightaware.com/120
Feb 12 01:05:55 piaware piaware[459]: reconnecting in 58 seconds…
Feb 12 01:06:53 piaware piaware[459]: Connecting to FlightAware adept server at piaware-ipv6.flighta
Feb 12 01:06:53 piaware piaware[459]: Connection to adept server at piaware-ipv6.flightaware.com/120
Feb 12 01:06:53 piaware piaware[459]: reconnecting in 58 seconds…
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● piaware.service - FlightAware ADS-B uploader
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/piaware.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2020-02-12 01:02:46 PST; 5min ago
Docs: https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/
Main PID: 459 (piaware)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/piaware.service
├─459 /usr/bin/piaware -p /run/piaware/piaware.pid -plainlog -statusfile /run/piaware/status.json
└─657 /usr/lib/piaware/helpers/faup1090 --net-bo-ipaddr localhost --net-bo-port 30005 --stdout --lat 47.928 --lon -122.234

Feb 12 01:04:01 piaware piaware[459]: reconnecting in 56 seconds…
Feb 12 01:04:57 piaware piaware[459]: Connecting to FlightAware adept server at piaware-ipv6.flightaware.com/1200
Feb 12 01:04:57 piaware piaware[459]: Connection to adept server at piaware-ipv6.flightaware.com/1200 failed: couldn’t open socket: network is unreac
Feb 12 01:04:57 piaware piaware[459]: reconnecting in 58 seconds…
Feb 12 01:05:55 piaware piaware[459]: Connecting to FlightAware adept server at piaware-ipv6.flightaware.com/1200
Feb 12 01:05:55 piaware piaware[459]: Connection to adept server at piaware-ipv6.flightaware.com/1200 failed: couldn’t open socket: network is unreac
Feb 12 01:05:55 piaware piaware[459]: reconnecting in 58 seconds…
Feb 12 01:06:53 piaware piaware[459]: Connecting to FlightAware adept server at piaware-ipv6.flightaware.com/1200
Feb 12 01:06:53 piaware piaware[459]: Connection to adept server at piaware-ipv6.flightaware.com/1200 failed: couldn’t open socket: network is unreac
Feb 12 01:06:53 piaware piaware[459]: reconnecting in 58 seconds…

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You didn’t post your configuration, it is shown when using this command:

piaware-config
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You’ve configured piaware to connect to FA via IPv6. Do you have functioning IPv6?

If not, you can switch back to the default settings:

piaware-config adept-serverhosts ""

(or remove / comment out the adept-serverhosts line in piaware-config.txt)

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OBJ I do have IPv6 … Both the Modem and router support it.
Ill try switching and see what happens

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OBJ that is what it was. I had forgotten to set up IPv6 on the Router. I have it as IPv4 now, Ill worry about 6 later. I have IPv6 running on the Router now.

Thanks

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Oh yea
OBJ, is there any advantage of going IPv6 over IPv4 for a standard user?

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No particular advantage unless you’re on a v6-only network.

The ongoing bunfights around v6 peering mean that global v6 connectivity can be unreliable, which is why we don’t just advertise the v6 addresses in piaware.flightaware.com

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Thanks OBJ, just never sure if IPv6 is better than IPv4

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Worth noting too that IPv6 support in consumer broadband routers can be quite flaky, by which I mean services that are working okay with IPv4 can have weird bugs or inconsistent behaviour with IPv6.