IPv6 Address for api.openai.com

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Can anyone please tell me if the API endpoint will be getting an IPv6 address anytime soon?

$ dig AAAA api.openai.com

; <<>> DiG 9.18.12 <<>> aaaa api.openai.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54794
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;api.openai.com.                        IN      AAAA

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
api.openai.com.         188     IN      SOA     ns1-01.azure-dns.com. azuredns-hostmaster.microsoft.com. 1 3600 300 2419200 300

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Tue Aug 29 17:21:58 UTC 2023
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 126

Thank you!

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Can anyone answer this

Should we use the ipv6 proxy for now

To OpenAI devs
IPv6 support for open Ai api is important please do the needful

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not really sure OpenAI API endpoint will obtain an IPv6 address as soon as possible.

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Is there a solution now ? I tried to add my discord bot on an IPV6 only VPS, but I’m getting errors because the API is using IPV4 only.

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Not sure why not, according to the IP space reported by their DNS entries for api(dot)openai(dot)com, they are using cloudflare in the front of their systems. According to cloudflare all they would need to do to support this would be to “flip” this “switch”.

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This seems like a deliberate choice.

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Hi! I have the same problem. I don’t have an opportunity use ipv4 api and proxy. It blocks me in my case. Openai devs help!

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Hi all, same here - trying to access the API from an IPv6 only VPS. Would be great if this problem gets solved soon :slight_smile:

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We too could really use an IPv6 address. Reason being, we run services in containers on AWS, and currently we need to use an EC2 instance just to enable NAT, which is cheaper than using a NAT Gateway but still costs us. If we could hit the OpenAI API via IPv6, that would be free, and we could remove that NAT instance.

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doesn’t help world adoption of ipv6 when a 21th century us tech company releases a brand new service using ipv4 only.