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…

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

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

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.

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”. [image] This seems like a deliberate c…

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!

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:

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…

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

We also run services on EC2 in private subnets with only IPv6 internet connectivity. All other web services we depend on support IPv6.

This feature request has been passed along to OpenAI. No further info yet, but wanted to keep this thread in the loop.

IPv6 Address for api.openai.com

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levime February 5, 2026, 10:54pm 13

Any update on this? This is driving up my AWS costs by forcing a need for IPV4

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