Does Github support IPv6?

elgs

I have some bash script downloading source code from Github. It worked well until I ran it on my IPv6 only VPS today. Surprisingly Github doesn't seem to support IPv6. Not sure whether it is real or did I miss anything?

raindog308

They support it at least somewhat...or at least, they've created DNS records for it.

$ dig -t aaaa github.com

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> -t aaaa github.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER

raindog308

Hmmm Vanilla seems to break my copy-pasted PRE'd dig output, but I'm too lazy to figure out why.

GM2015

;github.com. IN AAAA

LiteServer

Github users are asking IPv6 support for quite some years now. I've heard that they do have support for IPv6 for their hooks, but besides that..... no IPv6 support

elgs

@raindog308 said:
They support it at least somewhat...or at least, they've created DNS records for it.

$ dig -t aaaa github.com

I ran the same command. Looks like they really don't have an AAAA record. Shame on them.

FVPS

No, they don't really have IPv6. So it's a bit of a pain to work on IPv6 only VPSs because so many sites don't have IPv6.

I used DNS64/NAT64 nameservers to access IPv4 only sites on a IPv6 only service.

http://aa.net.uk/kb-broadband-ipv6-nat64.html



Just add

nameserver 2001:8b0:6464::1
nameserver 2001:8b0:6464::2

To the top of your resolv.conf



And then wget and et cetera will be able to grab content from IPv4 only sources over address translation through these DNS servers. Speed is alright actually if not even sometimes really decent!

Hope this can help you to get over the fact that something as big and as popular as GitHub has no IPv6.