Time for the status again. It’s now been four years since IPv6 support was requested from GitHub. I’m afraid the situation hasn’t evolved much since last year.
As usual, the domain avatars.githubusercontent.com does resolve to an array of IPv6 addresses announced by Fastly.
~ nslookup avatars.githubusercontent.com
Server: 127.0.0.53
Address: 127.0.0.53#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: avatars.githubusercontent.com
Address: 185.199.111.133
Name: avatars.githubusercontent.com
Address: 185.199.108.133
Name: avatars.githubusercontent.com
Address: 185.199.109.133
Name: avatars.githubusercontent.com
Address: 185.199.110.133
Name: avatars.githubusercontent.com
Address: 2606:50c0:8002::154
Name: avatars.githubusercontent.com
Address: 2606:50c0:8001::154
Name: avatars.githubusercontent.com
Address: 2606:50c0:8003::154
Name: avatars.githubusercontent.com
Address: 2606:50c0:8000::154
Code language: CSS (css)Unsurprisingly, the rest remains sad. You still cannot load the homepage, clone or do any kind of operation using an IPv6-only network without DNS64.
If your sole use of GitHub is viewing people’s avatars, then perfect, that’s the only place supporting IPv6; otherwise, still nothing.
And yeah, that’s all there is to it: not much, as usual.
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