[HN Gopher] GitHub seems to be enabling IPv6 for GitHub Pages ___________________________________________________________________ GitHub seems to be enabling IPv6 for GitHub Pages Author : scrollaway Score : 89 points Date : 2021-08-14 13:06 UTC (9 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | dheera wrote: | Too bad I often have to disable IPv6 because my ISP suddenly | decides to stop routing it from time to time. | | This is Comcast, so arguing with them doesn't get me anywhere, | all I get is "Thanks for expressing your concern." "Rest assured | that I will solve all your problems." from the support dude in | some random call/chat center. | rahimnathwani wrote: | I use both Comcast and Monkeybrains. I've had to disable IPv6 | only once in the last 18 months: for my Monkeybrains | connection. | gtirloni wrote: | Same here. I had enough random problems when IPv6 was enabled | and got tired of troubleshooting things. Just disabled it and | will enable again in a few years. Hopefully things will be | better. | miyuru wrote: | Doesn't Happy Eyeballs fallback to IPv4 on that situation? | formerly_proven wrote: | Anecdata: Enabling IPv6 does seem to break random stuff | randomly. | wongarsu wrote: | If something has a network problem but it's not the uplink | and it isn't DNS, then disabling ipv6 is definitely the | next in the list. | dheera wrote: | Maybe it's supposed to in theory but empirical results on my | machine say it doesn't | ahmedfromtunis wrote: | Silly question (especially for this forum): how would ipv6 be | useful for websites served via Github Pages? | andrewjf wrote: | There are more and more networks that are native IPv6. And IPv4 | connectivity is done with double NAT, NAT64, 464XLAT and other | heroics. | | The faster we can allow native IPv6 end-to-end, the faster we | can get rid of the complex IPv4 compatibility technologies and | simplify the entire internet. At some point, you may start to | see networks with no v4 connectivity whatsoever (maybe they | already exist, but I can't imagine them being useful), so this | allows those users to reach github pages. | | To directly answer your question, it's investment and | maintenance in infrastructure, not for user features. | rnhmjoj wrote: | > maybe they already exist, but I can't imagine them being | useful | | They are rare but do exist! Here's a couple of reports from | the IPv6 subreddit: [1] [2]. | | [1]: https://teddit.net/r/ipv6/comments/he38ga/work_has_turne | d_of... | | [2]: https://teddit.net/r/ipv6/comments/n5y5oo/update_on_not_ | bein... | [deleted] | chrismorgan wrote: | > _GitHub seems to be enabling IPv6 for GitHub Pages_ | | This is extremely misleading at best. As far as I can tell from | reading this stuff, the _only_ thing that has changed recently is | that github-repository-files.githubusercontent.com has started | serving an AAAA record. (Perhaps other subdomains as well, but | that's the only one reported and it's definitely not all.) That's | nothing to do with GitHub Pages. GitHub Pages has unofficially | supported IPv6 for more than three years apart from the DNS | records, so if you're brave or foolish enough you could add AAAA | records on a custom domain that's handled by GitHub Pages. | lima wrote: | Don't underestimate the amount of backend plumbing necessary to | enable this kind of thing at scale, even if it's "just" a CDN | feature flag (analytics pipeline, authorization, rate limiting, | and so much more...) | remram wrote: | I'm surprised they didn't have it until now. Every cloud | provider's load balancer and CDN has had IPv6 for a while. That | they don't have it for the site or SSH is less surprising, but | GitHub Pages is static content. | jlelse wrote: | But github.com is still missing... | | https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2021/08/github-ipv6 | brirec wrote: | It would be nice if Verizon was interested in providing IPv6 | access via their Fios service at all in 2021. | sodality2 wrote: | This user says they have IPV6 with FiOS: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27985103 | | I have FiOS as well and I'm only a few miles from them. I | attempted to get IPV6 from the router settings and it didn't | work for me. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-08-14 23:00 UTC)