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Floating IPv6 Addresses

We'd like to use floating IPs to seamlessly move traffic from one droplet to another when re-deploying services.

However, we also aim to support IPv6 and already receive a lot of traffic via v6.

As floating IPs are IPv4 only, this severely limits their ability to achieve their purpose in our scenario, forcing us to rely on slowly propagating DNS updates for a growing portion of our incoming traffic.

 

Pleas add floating IPv6 Addresses.

  • Aljoscha Vollmerhaus
  • Nov 30 2018
  • Future consideration
Floating IPs
  • Comments (8)
  • Votes (72)
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  • Claudiu Bogdan Minea commented
    3 May, 2020 09:05am

    This should be merged into the more adopted https://ideas.digitalocean.com/ideas/DO-I-1010

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  • Ryan Carpenter commented
    11 Jan, 2020 08:11am

    This idea duplicates DO-I-1010#

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  • Nick Retel commented
    25 Oct, 2019 05:17am

    This would be a great addition indeed

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  • Lucas Vasilakopoulos commented
    13 Jul, 2019 11:42pm

    I recently happened upon a use case for this. IPv6 can't live to its potential without this feature.

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  • Jasper Metselaar commented
    12 Jul, 2019 10:58am

    Lack of IPv6 on floating IPs takes away a lot of the advantages.

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  • Leader One commented
    5 Jun, 2019 01:01am

    I am a Chinese user who deploy v2ray service on a DigitalOcean droplet. The fucking GFW remembers the IP of my droplet and then blocks that IP. Recently (2019-06-05), I have discovered that an IPv6 address lives for about 1 month, but an IPv4 address is almost unreachable. So, a floating IPv6 address can keep the accessibility of my service.

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  • Adam Casto commented
    24 May, 2019 09:29pm

    Is this feature anywhere on the roadmap? I know it doesn't have a ton of votes, but being either or with floating IPs and IPv6 kind of hobbles both features. 

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  • Steve Douville commented
    18 Mar, 2019 12:38pm

    This seems like a no-brainer. Whether using this for load-balancing or failover planning, two uses that DO say floating IP's are suited for, your choices will either be to abandon ipv6 or not rely on the floating IP. 

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