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People have been asking for IPv6 Support on GitHub since years (probably a decade by now)

... and someone even got so annoyed that they decided to setup a dedicated website for checking this: https://isgithubipv6.live/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (9 children)

whats the problem with IPv4?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm using ipv6 when I occasionally connect to Yggdrasil.

And I think I'll use ipv6 if we ever need to build a new earthnet.

It's a fine technology.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I use IPv6 at home, I selected my last few ISP's because they had IPv6. Left one ISP when they removed IPv6 🤦‍♂️ .

If you can choose ISP choose one that offers IPv6 and let them know why.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, github websites/pages support ipv6

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

github.com doesn't have a AAAA DNS entry. So it's not serving anything directly over IPv6. Likewise, ping -6 github.com fails. So, what are you seeing that is supporting ipv6?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Because I can remember an IPv4 address and not a V6 address!

At least they could have added an extra octet to v4 instead of making it garbyremoved looking

[–] technom 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You are not expected to remember a v6 address - or even v4 for that matter. They are designed for machines. DNS is designed for humans.

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