carrylexJun 9, 2024

Roses are red, violets are blue, everyone is using IPv6, why aren't you?

https://lemmy.world/post/16349405

Roses are red, violets are blue, everyone is using IPv6, why aren't you? - Lemmy.World

Context: People have been asking for IPv6 Support on GitHub since years [https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10539] (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/ [https://isgithubipv6.live/]

Show threadchrisJun 9, 2024
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…
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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.

Jun 9, 2024 at 3:32pmWeb
Show threadserpineslairJun 9, 2024
May I ask which extension you are using?
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IPvFoo

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipvfoo/

There is a chrome version too.

IPvFoo – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download IPvFoo for Firefox. Display the server IP address, with a realtime summary of IPv4, IPv6, and HTTPS information across all page elements.

Show threadserpineslairJun 9, 2024
Thanks.
Show threadchrisJun 10, 2024
IPv6 traffic is globally steady at around 37%. So it isn’t a majority by far.
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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.

IPv6 – Google