GitHub downloads, with IPv6

Dear Microsoft

Dear Microsoft, World IPv6 Launch was on 6 June 2012. Is it possible to add IPv6 support to Github soon? :)

There is a small, but growing fraction of the Internet that only has no or bad IPv4 support.

Mostly, hosting providers are starting to charge extra for IPv4 addresses. See:

It would be nice if GitHub.com could start supporting IPv6.

The workaround

This website provides a small IPv6-enabled proxy to GitHub. But only on download URLs. The goal is not to clone the website, just allow us to bootstrap new servers based on GitHub release assets.

For those URLs, replace

github.com

with

gh-v6.com

and it should work out of the box. Eg:

Type	Before	After
Repo archive	https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/refs/heads/master.zip	https://gh-v6.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/refs/heads/master.zip
Release assets	https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-images/releases/download/nixos-unstable/nixos-kexec-installer-noninteractive-aarch64-linux.tar.gz	https://gh-v6.com/nix-community/nixos-images/releases/download/nixos-unstable/nixos-kexec-installer-noninteractive-aarch64-linux.tar.gz
Repo content	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nix/master/README.md	Already supports IPv6! Thanks @puckipedia for noticing.
GitHub Pages	*.github.io	Already supports IPv6! Thanks @mynacol@ipv6.social for the notice.

Known limitations

It's not possible to browse GitHub. Mostly because it would cost too much to handle all of those requests.
Everything is still super fresh.

Other workarounds

For git clones, check out: danwin1210.de/github-ipv6-proxy.php?lang=en

Related projects

We are not alone in asking for IPv6. See also:

isgithubipv6.live

About us

We are a small consulting agency that loves open-source, Nix, deploying servers and interesting software challenges.

This little hackday project was created to make our and other people's lives easier. And maybe push Microsoft in the right direction?

If you like the spirit, check us out: .

Legal

Hello Microsoft, how are you? I hope you see that we are trying to be helpful.

If you want to contact us, send your ~~cease and desist~~ love letters to hello@numtide.com.

Best, Jonas