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> The GitHub API and its code load endpoints are not reachable via IPv6

Should it matter that GitHub or whatever doesn't support IPv6? I understood that it is possible to bridge the divide through an IPv6<->IPv4 gateway. IPv6 is designed to incorporate the IPv4 32 bit address space as a segment of the IPv6 address space and automatically translating between the two is relatively straightforward.

At least that what I believe. The next time someone asks me about supporting IPv6 will be the first, so I've been able to avoid the matter for a couple decades now.




That's NAT64. It's something that Hetzner could and should be providing for their customers, but as far as I can see they aren't.


Well ok... the problem stops right there then. Why would anyone expect -- given the low adoption of IPv6 -- IPv6 sans NAT64 to be workable? Why even bother without it?

I don't imagine it would be hard to locate any number of IPv6 zealots proselytizing a NAT64-less world, but here we have someone that made a legitimate effort to apply IPv6 and failed because it wasn't there. One fewer potential convert added to the pile...


It's workable if all of the machines you're going to talk to have v6, which is doable. Or you can run your own NAT64.

It would also be very easy to suggest that maybe Hetzner want to encourage people to keep paying for v4.




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