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

  • @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    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?

    • @apearsonM
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      31 year ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

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

        • @apearsonM
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          31 year ago

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

    • @roddyOP
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      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.