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Roses are red, violets are blue, everyone is using IPv6, why aren't you? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by carrylex@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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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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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 56 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I’m not using it because by and large it’s not implemented properly on consumer hardware, and my ISP doesn’t care if their IPv6 network is broken.

[-] skilltheamps@feddit.de 9 points 5 months ago

That is not the case for every country though. In France and Germany for example almost 3/4 of google requests are via IPv6.

[-] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 5 months ago

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

[-] Redex68@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Interesting that India has such a high percentage. I'm guessing it's because most of their network infrastructure is probably relatively new and so they can include support right off the bat, instead of having to retrofit stuff?

[-] sep@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Not much choise i guess. Usa and europe grabbed the majority of available ipv4 space. Asia got a bit. And only scraps and leftovers for africa and latin america.

[-] Redex68@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah but then you look at China and it's at 4%. Maybe they got into the game early enough to get enough adress space for it to be serviceable?

[-] Album@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

Most of China can't reach Google so the reporting is off anyway. But in 2023 the govt mandated ipv6 support to all carriers and manufacturers.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/17/china_networking_hardware/

[-] sep@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

China block much of the internet so who knows with china. Do not know if anyone have real china numbers of IPv6 deployment. They also had their own "IPv9" that was rumored some years ago that may or may not have been used internally.