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by mmalone 2244 days ago
Last time I launched a new website it took less than a month for someone to let us know that we'd forgotten to configure a AAAA and our site was inaccessible for them. And that was at new website traffic volume.

So yea, GitHub definitely knows about AAAA records and has intentionally decided not to have one. The question is: why? They must have a reason. Maybe even a good one. I'm curious.
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rob-olmos 2243 days ago
Interesting. Any likely reasons why not having IPv6/AAAA make the site inaccessible to them?

Sounds like most of the internet would be inaccessible to them as well?

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segfaultbuserr 2243 days ago
A broken AAAA record, perhaps. Sometimes the AAAA is invalid or broken without getting noticed by the sysadmin. I've personally reported broken AAAA records before.
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rob-olmos 2241 days ago
I see. Although from the mmalone's comment it sounded like an AAAA record wasn't set at all, rather than set incorrectly.
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segfaultbuserr 2244 days ago
I do find some rumors on Reddit [0], which says IPv6 is a low priority project that gives its way to other projects.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/ipv6/comments/ec8i7y/github_still_d...

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