Roses are red, violets are blue, everyone is using IPv6, why aren't you?
Roses are red, violets are blue, everyone is using IPv6, why aren't you?
Context:
People have been asking for IPv6 Support on GitHub since years (probably a decade by now)
... and someone even got so annoyed that they decided to setup a dedicated website for checking this: https://isgithubipv6.live/
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The perpetual chicken egg problem of IPv6: many users don't have IPv6 because it's not worth it because everything is reachable via IPv4 anyways because IPv6 only service don't make sense because they will only reach a subset of users because many users don't have IPv6.....
Honestly this isn't even true anymore. Most major ISPs have implemented dual stack now. The customer doesn't know or care because it's done at the CPE for them.
I use a browser extension which tells me if the site I'm at is 6 or 4 or mixed. In 2024 most major sites support V6. A lot of this is due to CDN supporting it natively.
The fact that GitHub doesn't is quickly becoming the exception.
May I ask which extension you are using?
Thanks.
IPv6 traffic is globally steady at around 37%. So it isn't a majority by far.
https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
Globally it's at about 47% and growing at about 4% per year. If the rate remains unchanged it'll be about a decade for >95%.
But the reality of it is, you don't need global adoption out of the box. You just need majority adoption in the countries you visit, which for me are western countries (north America and Europe) which now have a majority adoption.
If IPv6 is done right you don't even know you have it. If you use a cell phone or a home Internet, there is a high chance you are already using IPv6.
If your ISP supports it
Sure, but my point is that if it is implemented right, you won't even know you're using IPv6 until you check network configuration.
This sums it up. I'm too lazy and there's too little incentive.
I don't have IPv6, but I can still reach IPv6 only sites if I use MullvadVPN (and probably also with other VPN providers).