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segfaultbuserr·

> How does github not have an AAAA record in 2020?

Yeah, it's hopeless, and it goes as if [0] they explicitly decided not to support it, incredibly frustrating!

> The faster people move to gitlab the better.

A lot projects will always host their master repository on GitHub for better or worse...

[0] Not meant to be an accusation, I don't have any evidence.

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Last time I launched a new website it took less than a month for someone to let us know that we'd forgotten to configure a AAAA and our site was inaccessible for them. And that was at new website traffic volume.

So yea, GitHub definitely knows about AAAA records and has intentionally decided not to have one. The question is: why? They must have a reason. Maybe even a good one. I'm curious.

I do find some rumors on Reddit [0], which says IPv6 is a low priority project that gives its way to other projects.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/ipv6/comments/ec8i7y/github_still_d...

Interesting. Any likely reasons why not having IPv6/AAAA make the site inaccessible to them?

Sounds like most of the internet would be inaccessible to them as well?

A broken AAAA record, perhaps. Sometimes the AAAA is invalid or broken without getting noticed by the sysadmin. I've personally reported broken AAAA records before.

I see. Although from the mmalone's comment it sounded like an AAAA record wasn't set at all, rather than set incorrectly.

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