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lemmy.world is now accessible over IPv6 (self.ipv6)

submitted 1 year ago by roddy to c/ipv6

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This is becoming better day by day. Hope other instances follows that and enables IPv6 as well.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hello! Digital Ocean has an option for letting me use an IPv6 address but I don't know enough about networking to know what the implications are of upgrading. I chose not to host https://fanaticus.social on IPv6 initially because I didn't know if there were going to be any incompatibilities with lemmy. Can anyone here educate me?

[–] apearson 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shouldn't be any incompatibilities as lemmy.world is IPv6 enabled

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! What about DNS? I'd imagine that I'll need to update my DNS to point to my new IPv6 address.

[–] apearson 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, you'll need to add an AAAA record along side your current A record

[–] roddy 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I never hosted a Lemmy instance myself but since it's already running and nginx is listening to both protocols (you can try accessing the literal [IPv6] address in your browser, it should bring you to the default nginx page), I believe you can add the AAAA record to your domain and it should work. Don't take my word as final, though. Might ask @Ruud if that's correct.