My discourse-setup is failing on a Ubuntu 22.04 VPS with the following error: fatal: unable to access https://github.com/discourse/discourse.git/: Could not resolve host: github.com My VPS has only an IPv6 address, but I’m using Dan Win’s github IPv6 proxy: I can ping github.com , I successfully cl…

I’ve hit issues with Docker on IPv6 only systems in the past related to the lack of NAT, since Docker often uses IP addresses that are only accessible from the host but NAT is not automatically configured by Docker for IPv6. This repo’s readme describes that problem more fully: GitHub - robbertkl/d…

[image] nottoobright: first assumed this was an IPv6 problem, but the fact that my VPS can access github and clone the package has me confused… I’m guessing that docker isn’t configured for IPv6

[image] Dave McClure: I’ve hit issues with Docker on IPv6 only systems in the past related to the lack of NAT, I heard that there is a Really Big Discourse hosting company that makes extensive use of IPv6 in their infrastructure. But NAT sounds like a likely issue. I’ll keep that in mind nex…

IPv6 Git clone fails in discourse-setup, but works on the machine?!?

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nottoobright September 30, 2023, 8:33pm 4

Yep, you guys nailed it - it was indeed a v6 problem because Docker doesn’t like v6. Added a v4 address to the VPS and everything worked.

Thanks

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