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HN is served by CloudFlare, and CloudFlare's edge servers should offer you an IPv6 address if you ask for an AAAA record - they certainly do for my domains - bu
by namecast 12y ago
HN is served by CloudFlare, and CloudFlare's edge servers should offer you an IPv6 address if you ask for an AAAA record - they certainly do for my domains - but it looks like someone hasn't clicked the 'sure, serve my site over v6' button in the CloudFlare UI.
If I run
dig -t AAAA news.ycombinator.com
I don't get any records returned, unlike every other CF hosted site that I tested. HTTP headers and NS records confirm CloudFlare is running things, just not offering v6 addresses...
- p1mrx 12y agoThis site had AAAAs for a few hours back in May 2013 (I think during the switch to CloudFlare from whatever they were using before). But when accessed over IPv6, it would just hang for a while, and dump an error message. So, presumably the HN backend can't handle IPv6 addresses in the CloudFlare HTTP headers, and rather than fix the problem, they just turned it off.
- kogir 12y agoYou are correct.