When will Hacker News be available on IPv6?

4 pointsjanvdberg4 comments

I mean, really. With IPv6 day coming up and all.

HN is served by CloudFlare, and CloudFlare's edge servers should offer you an IPv6 address if you ask for an AAAA record - they certainly do for my domains - but it looks like someone hasn't clicked the 'sure, serve my site over v6' button in the CloudFlare UI.

If I run

dig -t AAAA news.ycombinator.com

I don't get any records returned, unlike every other CF hosted site that I tested. HTTP headers and NS records confirm CloudFlare is running things, just not offering v6 addresses...

This site had AAAAs for a few hours back in May 2013 (I think during the switch to CloudFlare from whatever they were using before). But when accessed over IPv6, it would just hang for a while, and dump an error message.

So, presumably the HN backend can't handle IPv6 addresses in the CloudFlare HTTP headers, and rather than fix the problem, they just turned it off.

You are correct.

Shortly before internet connections only come with IPv6 addresses. As long as IPv4 is working, why spend any time on it?

Seriously, this is like pestering people to fix y2k bugs in 1980.

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