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I am unable to understand what in 2022 still holds full IPv6 support for a platform like GitHub. |
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New ISPs in my country are IPv6-only because there is no new IPv4 space to be provided to them. They do have a over-shared IPv4 address by CGNAT but due to the oversharing, it is unstable and not rare to be offline. For these companies, the internet access is stable only in IPv6. Thinking about the server-side, some cloud providers are making extra charges for IPv4 addresses (e.g.: Vultr.com) so most of the servers in my company are IPv6-only. Cloning github repositories is very cumbersome due to the lack of IPv6 support and this issue affects me and my team mates on a daily basis. The math is simple: there are 4.88 billion internet users in the world but the IPv4 space only provides 4 billion addresses. It's over: IPv4 is obsolete and is provided in a legacy mode. Current applications and services must be IPv6 enabled otherwise it should be seen as obsolete. For that matter, github.com is an obsolete service because it relies on obsolete technology as IPv4. |
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I really tried to use github in a IPv6 Only Network and I was not successful. Is there any plan on the github's roadmap to fully adopt IPv6? |
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If GitHub can't get v6 on github.com soon, maybe at least an ipv6.github.com proxy for SSH git cloning? |
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IPv6 is the actual internet protocol, while IPv4 is a legacy protocol. Please, priorize this request. |
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My private ci is forced to go full IPv6 only, and this requires me to have one IPv4 gateway to access github. This in turn means I keep running into rate limits all the time. For now I've worked around this with an access token, but that's not sustainable. Any ipv6 support would be much appreciated. |
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Is GitHub deprecated or why there is still no IPv6 support? We are talking about a over 20 year old technology and the standard for about 5 years. |
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Probably because people that manage the technical team still didn't realize what this mean and didn't prioritize it enough. Well, then why hasn't all that been done beforehand and being carried out gradually that we can some progress on it ? Are there people working dedicated to make that happen ? After companies like Google, Facebook, Netflix, Akamai, Cloudflare have made it 100% I don't see any other strong arguments for companies use complexity as a reason to delay it further. Hope someone from GitHub's team is reading it. |
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I vaguely remember that years ago (pre-MS, pre-pandemic) somewhere Github engineers held a talk (or maybe it was a blog posting?) which more less said that IPv6 is in the makes, but less trivial than one might think. I just can't find that talk or slides or so anymore. I also vaguely remember that they mentioned What I though have found is that there is an ipv6 label in Github's blog — it though only lists one posting so far, which talks about Github Pages now having IPv6 support. There even once was But yeah, another Github user here with (on purpose) trying to run hosts IPv6 only and the first (and so far only) hard stumbling block was not being able to clone Git repos from Github. 🤌 I wonder if I should use Gitlab.com for these repos, because they do have an AAAA record for their main site:
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It's 2022, World IPv6 Launch Day was 10 years ago. Yet, GitHub still doesn't have IPv6 support. The IPv4 address space is exhausted for years now, and ISPs are using techniques such as CGNAT to still be able to give their customers access to the legacy IPv4 internet, with the instability of these techniques as the cost. Why doesn't GitHub provide native IPv6 support? And, more importantly, is IPv6 support for GitHub on the roadmap? |
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CC rust-lang/cargo#10711 this causes real issues for open source software users. This is an absurd conversation in 2022. |
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This is $MS. This company was and will be ever a enemy of open source or new technologies that comes not from $MS. They did nothing that helps the community. $MS is only interested in earning money and gives a shit on your needs |
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How can you not have ipv6? Some cloud providers charge extra for ipv4! |
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Would any Github/Microsoft representative tell us in which year, century or millenium will they support IPV6? We have public cloud environments where we are with IPV6 only already... Although, based on recent experience with Azure, I think their public cloud environment is also like with 10 years behind Google and Amazon's public cloud anyway. Why would they bother for Github? |
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IPv4 is officially a „legacy“ protocol - we no longer use token-ring, do we? Legacy is another word for DEPRECATED which is another word for „old stuff that needs to fade out“. Every new webservice should ditch IPv4 and go v6-only - it’s the new world and only IPv6 allows ALL People on this globe to access resources.It’s finally time for GitHub to put on the adult pants and accept that you NEED IPv6 - it is the freakin standard - there’s not even a discussion, it’s a damn FACT! It’s really shameful that GitHub straight refuses to use IPv6 - it really shows their lack of technical expertise… Devs depend on GitHub and therefore they have a responsibility to deploy it (they had at least 10+ years)…Am 26.07.2024 um 16:11 schrieb Al Sutton ***@***.***>:
For over 10 years, "Internet" now means IPv6
No it doesn't.
IPv6 and IPv4 are both "Internet Protocols". That's literally what the "IP" part stands for. The "Internet" is the superset of machines which communicate using one, or both, protocols. Not supporting both does not mean something isn't available on the "Internet". That's like trying to change the definition of a house and then saying that all houses that weren't built in a way you like can't be called houses any more.
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I can't believe that Github doesn't work with ipv6 in 2024. |
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Out of this, multiple AS have only IPv6 because LANIC don't have anymore IPv4! Then nobody can access to github |
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The view is:Some people cannot get v4 anymore - that alone should be reason enough to move to at the very least dual stack…One could say: Actively refusing IPv6 is racist - but we don’t want to open this pandora box do we? ;)Am 28.08.2024 um 18:43 schrieb Al Sutton ***@***.***>:
To me it's sad to see folk limit the scope of their supporting evidence to data which backs their argument, and resort to attacking people, rather than coming up with globally relevant data to back their view.
To me it feels like this thread has become an IPv6 supporter echo chamber rather than somewhere that diverse viewpoints can be raised and objectively evaluated, hence why I test the waters by replying now and again, and then drop out when folk start using derogatory terms at people.
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Please so not even try to imply that the inability to access a site which has always been IPv4 only is, in any way, like a disgusting attitude some folk have to their fellow human beings. You can buy access from IPv6 to IPv4 services via proxies, stopping racism is something that involves so much more than just money. |
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There are people and companies that are not doing their homework, they are still living in the Stone Age and are not evolving and are becoming complacent. Unfortunately, they promote the Internet's delay. |
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Response #2 |
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github moment |
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#Ipv6. We need IPV6 on github. Where is IPV6? Name: github.com |
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GitHub is still in the previous century .. just ran into this. |
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Oen problem is the people in general complain but don't have the guts to move their work out of Github. While many may still consider IPv6 important and this delay from Github unacceptable, at the end they just want to get their work done and don't want to have the work to move things elsewhere. |
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Just wanting to bring this to your attention @github, as there is a need for it. An update regarding your plans on this would be appreciated. |
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Is there a public roadmap or update from GitHub regarding the implementation of IPv6 support for their core services, including git repository cloning and the GitHub API, as currently only some services like github-releases.githubusercontent.com support it? |
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gitlab have ipv6, btw! |
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Hi, I'm surprised I didn't find an existing discussion with this topic. Some services like github-releases.githubusercontent.com or user pages do support IPv6, however the webpage (github.com) itself, including cloning of git repositories, does not work.
Is there a public roadmap on enabling IPv6 for GitHubs very core business, distributing Git repositories? If I'm wrong and there is already IPv6 support, please guide me.
The same issues exists for api.github.com and thereby making CLIs unusable on IPv6 only connections.
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