Still Stuck in the Past? Major Websites Clinging to IPv4!

[Trex]

Is anyone else surprised by how many major websites and services are still holding onto IPv4? why are some of the biggest players still dragging their feet? few examples are Microsoft onedrive, reddit, many banks sites.
These are just a few examples, and there are likely many more major websites and services that haven't fully transitioned to IPv6. It's frustrating to see this slow progress.

 

[Protector]

It's not a surprise to be honest for major sites to use IPv4. Most of the Major sites support both IPv4 & IPv6. It's just that people in all over the world are not adopted to IPv6 still and require IPv4 support.

Most of the Game servers, Database servers and other important server still run on IPv4 in place of IPv6 because there is no demand from consumers to get IPv6 as there primary base in place of IPv6. Similarly, Most of the Multiplayer Games aren't using IPv6 in there servers and run on IPv4.

Banking sites mainly don't use IPv6 because they are working on old programming setups as well as they are not going to get bother to shift to IPv6 currently. They'll still stick with IPv4 because IPv6 require different security tools, Policies and training to setup there system.

Regarding Microsoft, Apple like websites these people don't use IPv6 as main-core but use Dual-Stack Network which helps to access there apps. and other resources through both IPv6 and IPv4.

So, It's all goes to Consumers need as Consumers doesn't require IPv6 and so these companies doesn't bother to get themselves inside IPv6 infrastructure although it's best to get IPv6 but they don't do mainly because of customer readiness.

 

[Trex]

onedrive is ipv4 only not dual stack

 

[Trex]

reddit now on IPv6.

 

[sloj]

I like that extension, makes it easy to view the addresses when different elements load on a page.

 

[sanket12]

IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) has indeed been the workhorse of the internet for decades. Let’s explore its journey and the transition to IPv6:

Birth of IPv4:
In the early days of the internet, the need arose to uniquely identify devices on a growing network. This led to the birth of IPv4.
IPv4 employed a 32-bit addressing scheme, allowing for approximately 4.3 billion unique addresses.
Its familiar dotted-decimal format (e.g., 192.168.1.1) became ubiquitous

Challenges with IPv4:
The explosion of the internet and the proliferation of devices quickly depleted the finite pool of IPv4 addresses.
Subnetting and network classes were introduced to optimize address allocation, but they lacked flexibility.

Enter IPv6:
IPv6, the successor to IPv4, was designed to address these limitations.
It uses a 128-bit addressing scheme, providing an astronomical number of unique addresses (approximately 340 undecillion).
IPv6 adoption has been gradual, but high-traffic sites like Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Facebook, Netflix, and YouTube now support it.
However, globally, only about 30% of Google searches use IPv6, indicating that IPv4 still hangs on.
In summary, while IPv6 offers a vast address space, the transition remains a gradual process. Major websites now support IPv6, but IPv4 continues to play a significant role in our connected world.

 

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[sloj]

While I can ping reddit and it pings in v6, the site still loads in v4 and other elements load in v6. I think I saw Amazon load in v6 too but now it loads in v4 again.

 

[Trex]

Try in incognito. If it opens on v6 then clear browser cache.

 

[sloj]

Nope. must be some other thing.

 

[Trex]

That worked for me.