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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 It's over: IPv4 is obsolete and is provided in a legacy mode.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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#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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I can't use Github from IPv6 only hosts. That's quite unexpected for a platform from a mature provider like Microsoft. Please, pretty please... Can we have IPv6 support? 😄 |
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I just found this out myself why a IPv6 only access did not work. Granted, it is not an issue for me to use IPv4 in this case, yet it really is rather silly that IPv6 is not yet supported. =/ |
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https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-microsoft/
They love NAT (Network Address Translation) 🤣 |
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As mentioned earlier, this issue with Github looks like more a bad technical management issue. When a team, of any project, disregard IPv6 in such way it sends a very clear message about the team capacity to deal with other stuff even unrelated to IPv6. Shows they have limits in their technical capacity to identify things and take the necessary actions. |
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Not deploying IPv6 only in 2024 thus thinking „it’s not worth it / will go away“ is the only naive thing here…Am 15.11.2024 um 20:14 schrieb Tony Metzidis ***@***.***>:
making a judgement like this without knowing the cost/benefit for github is naive.
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It was in the year 2024 when I encountered this hilariously embarrassing situation while I was attempting to create a hugo automated deployment using a For anyone encountering this in the future and you're trying to do specifically what I was trying to do here is my workaround:
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“Fun” news from competitors. Gitlab banned me over IPv6. I can't do a git push and go to https://gitlab.com without disabling IPv6. |
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If you only want to download something from github one could use https://gh-v6.com/ as a workaround. |
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@mph4 The community understands ipv6 is a big project, and it seems there has been some active work on the upgrade about 6 months ago. What could we do to help improve the updates on this? Even a quarterly progress report would do a lot for this community. There are a number of charity projects providing ipv6 workarounds, like gh-v6 , https://danwin1210.de & isgithubipv6 . Lots of passionate customers & open source contributors are rooting for a solution! |
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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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