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GitHub lacks IPv6 support for Git repositories

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20 pointstonymet12 comments

Not sure if ipv6 as default or climate goal is reached first.

Looks like there's some testing going on, but these pages don't host anything

    $ nmap -6 ipv6.github.com
    Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-12-02 17:00 PST
    Nmap scan report for ipv6.github.com (2606:50c0:8000::153)
    Host is up (0.0077s latency).
    Not shown: 998 filtered tcp ports (no-response)
    PORT    STATE SERVICE
    80/tcp  open  http
    443/tcp open  https

They could atleast provide an ipv6.github.com as a manual choice

really great idea. this would also help to test & scale adoption.

this is what aws does . they have separate "dualstack" endpoints like s3.dualstack.amazonaws.com

Looks like they hinted at IPv6 testing 14mo ago ... https://twitter.com/AS36459/status/1582728252199964672

Please upvote that. It's ranked ~ 20 for the year. I'm hoping we can get more visibility via hackernews.

Yes know problem. But also known that they work on it.

"work on" it how? "thoughts and prayers?"

I fail to understand how it can be 2023, and GitLab have full IPv6 support, but GitHub is all "... oh, is this IPv6 thing new? we'll put it on the backlog with the extremely limited resources of .. err, Microsoft .. who are currently occupied with some OpenAI something-or-other ..."

IPv4 will continue to dominate until IPv4 experience is very noticeably degraded for users or seriously more expensive for providers to get an address.

It's just reality, it's hard to care about non-problems, specially when fixing them creates real my-problems.

good point. I like Amazon's approach of passing IPv4 costs to customers. this should make a change.

where to track updates?

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