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Re:Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4 by crote on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @02:56AM (#40498101)
It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. Major sites don't deploy IPv6 because "everyone has IPv4", and people don't roll out IPv6-only servers because they still want to be able to reach IPv4-only hosts.

Amazon has hopefully started a change in this mentality by charging money for every IPv4 address used. This creates a real financial incentive to deploy IPv6-only servers, which in turn means that critical services like Github and Linux mirrors are slowly forced to provide IPv6.

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Re:Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4 by sambazi on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @05:43AM (#40499026)
afaik there was a serious lack of v6 support within aws services. has the financial incentive reached this far or do they just want to charge you more?
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Re:Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4 by M2Ys4U on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @06:40AM (#40499303)
>afaik there was a serious lack of v6 support within aws services.

There still is, even though they've started charging for v4!

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Re:Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4 by rekoil on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @04:56AM (#40509885)
Azure too.
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