Discord IPV6 Support

[theoparis]

After every issue related to ipv6 support was either closed or locked, I have made a post here to discuss this topic. See #5545 and #5120

IPv6 has been a standard for at least 5 years, and server providers are now charging for using ipv4 addresses. See Amazon's article and Hetzner's pricing page.

[jhgg]

We have no plans for ipv6 support at this time.

[RossComputerGuy]

What are we supposed to do if IPv6 is the only option from an ISP or cloud service provider?

[ronhombre]

With AWS charging for IPV4 $0.005/hour, it is now important to support IPV6. Small bots need to run 24/7, but they do not have any revenue source. They are run from the pockets of their developers. This cost would soon spill over to other services as AWS users try to find alternatives, which would mean, they would also be forced to charge for IPV4 use. The worst-case scenario is for us to break Discord and come up with a way to support IPV6, but this is risky and exposes our bots to malicious attackers. For example, I've been looking for an IPV6 Discord API proxy. All it takes is a malicious attacker posting one, and I would risk my chances just to get out of IPV4. Another example would be to brute force and find a way to get IPV6 access that's undocumented or unintentional, which would definitely affect Discord if their networking does not support it as they say.

[romain-neil]

Hello @jhgg ,

You seems tu be using what can be called "cutting edge" technologies as mentioned in your profile.
Did you know that the most part of theses (rust, typescript, etc) are more recent than ipv6 itself ?

For the voice part, I not against the fact that this demand some twearks, but for the "public" api, that use some websockets or http, by already using a cloudflare proxy, what block you to enable the ipv6 radio button, to allow a more infrastructure from the developers usings theses endpoints ?

[erkinalp]

#6695

[andrediashexa]

First RFC about IPv6 was in 1998. It's extreme weird that DIscord dont have support to IPv6!
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2460