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Re:Enabling IPv6 support for GitHub Pages by api on Thursday September 30, 2021 @05:01PM (#28711243)
Two reasons. First, it's just inertia and backward compatibility. Same reason we still use the x86 instruction set in spite of its issues. Second reason is that long IPs really are kind of inconvenient for IT and network administrator people.
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Re:Enabling IPv6 support for GitHub Pages by azernik on Friday October 01, 2021 @06:19AM (#28716597)
IT and network admin people gripe about the long addresses, but when push comes to shove they don't actually make decisions based on that.
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