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by hellohiyesokay 1900 days ago
Your link only has IPv6 records but the www. subdomain has IPv4.
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Hey. What will that mean exactly? DNS is through Cloudflare using their magical CNAME pointer. Can you access OK?
I see IPv4 A records. I am guessing what's happening is that when you look up the DNS over IPv6, it gives you AAAA records instead of A records. Or, it can depend on locality. Cloudflare is not a DNS provider that gives the same answer to everyone -- its goal is to direct traffic to the cache that's closest to the end user.

Edit: I looked into it more and I can get IPv6 and IPv4 DNS servers to serve me both A and AAAA records. The site is now down, however :)

Thanks for checking. Much appreciated.

Yeah I banked too much on Cloudflare... I've ramped up its dyno a bit now too. Hopefully that'll keep it up!

At the time, the non-www subdomain only had IPv6 and I'm not running dual stack. They now look identical.
It meant that anyone not using IPv6 or a dual stack provider wouldn't be able to view the site through the non-www domain. However, they look identical now, so you're good.