GitHub Publishes IPv6 Addresses for Git SSH remotes
tonymet
33 points
10 comments
August 26, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (8 comments)
tonymet
see the "git" block for remote IPv6 ranges. This indicates they may be moving forward on ipv6 . "2a0a:a440::/29", "2606:50c0::/32",
rishabhyadav_
Long overdue transition. Native IPv6 support for Git SSH remotes solves significant NAT bottleneck issues for automated CI/CD pipelines at scale.
avhception
Well FINALLY!
aboardRat4
What does this mean?
bzmrgonz
I guess this helps the nomad crowd more than us cubicle jockeys right? Also iot? You guys can build ci/CD straight to iot edges.
crest
It must be a snow day in hell.
3r7j6qzi9jvnve
There are ranges in the "git" block, but it doesn't mean they're doing anything with it (until it's in the DNS or they publish specific IPs are safe to connect to it doesn't mean anything) This page is actually in the wayback machine (thank you!!!) and the same ranges were already listed in 2022 (not in 2021, didn't look for exact first occurence) http://web.archive.org/web/20220710073458/https://api.github...
platesmead
Great. I have a few IPv6-only hosts, and having to workaround GitHub being ipv4-only was a pain, especially during turnup, since my host config is stored on GitHub.