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Most of the CDN like Cloudflare, SUCURI, AKAMAI let you enable IPv6 from their edge web link.
IPv6 has a performance advantage over IPv4.
It can help to decrease the page load time from 25ms to 300ms.
If not already, it would be good to enable on your site.
Pre-requisite you have to ensure IPv6 is enabled on the OS level.
If you are using RHEL/CentOS, then youmay refer to this guide.
Lets see the procedure to implement IPv6 in Apache HTTP and the Nginx web server.
How to find IPv6 on Linux?
Before enabling the IPv6, it’s crucial that you know the IPv6 address.
There are multiple ways to locate the IPv6 in Linux/CentOS.
Note: ensure to put IPv6 in the square box.
And, as you’re able to see the second line starting with tcp6.
Enable IPv6 in Nginx Web Server
By default, Nginx is configured to listen on IPv6 address.
If you take a look at thenginx.conffile, you should see the following.
Restart Nginx to verify its listening on specific IP
Its easy, isnt it?
Once updated, you could verify the record by doing aDNS lookup.
You may also use theIPv6 Test toolto verify if your website is accessible over IPv6 or not.
