2y ago

Yearly reminder that github still does not have an IPv6 address (2023) - programming.dev

Try the following:

$ nslookup github.com [...] Non-authoritative answer: Name: github.com Address: 140.82.121.3

See also the completely ignored post in their forums.

3 comments

Good.
Signed - a grumpy former network admin.
I'm mostly joking and for those wondering why it matters, we're out of public IPv4 addresses and ISPs are starting to go IPv6 only in some places. From the post:
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.
can u tell why is it a big deal??