Docker for mac doesn't work on IPv6 network #1432

bobrik · 2017-03-14T18:42:17Z

Expected behavior

Docker for mac works on IPv6 network.

Actual behavior

Docker for mac doesn't work on IPv6 network.

Information

Documentation states: "IPv6 is not yet supported on Docker for Mac":

https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/troubleshoot/#workarounds-for-common-problems

#704 links to some issues and there are many others mentioning IPv6, but all of them are closed like broken IPv6 is a normal state of affairs. This issue can be closed when either:

IPv6 works out of the box.
Documentations states that IPv6 will never be supported.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Install docker for mac on a machine with dual-stack network.
Run a container, ping6 google.com in it.
Despair.

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djs55 · 2017-03-21T11:10:55Z

Thanks for your request for IPv6 support -- I've escalated it to the networking team.

dfilatov · 2017-08-11T21:30:25Z

@djs55 Is there any progress in supporting ipv6? It's an actual blocker for us :(

djs55 · 2017-08-11T22:21:37Z

There's been a little progress -- I recently fixed a bug in the IPv6 support within the Mirage TCP/IP stack which is used inside Docker for Mac. I think the next task is to configure the router discovery in vpnkit

aaranmcguire · 2017-11-30T15:40:47Z

Are you able to provide any update to this issue?

docker-robott · 2018-03-28T09:36:35Z

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aaranmcguire · 2018-03-28T09:42:34Z

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nikolaymatrosov · 2018-07-21T07:37:32Z

Are there any updates?

docker-robott · 2018-10-19T02:00:45Z

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boutetnico · 2018-10-19T06:42:33Z

According to Google, IPv6 global usage has reached 25% (source: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html?25%#tab=ipv6-adoption).
Maybe the "network team" could look into this again?
Let's embrace the future!

aaranmcguire · 2018-10-19T12:07:06Z

/remove-lifecycle stale

aaranmcguire · 2018-10-19T12:07:13Z

/lifecycle frozen

alvassin · 2019-07-14T16:18:37Z

Is still a big problem. Are there any news/plans on this issue?

Workaround for a Docker bug: docker/for-mac#1432

PhilETaylor · 2020-03-22T18:47:20Z

Cant believe apps still ignore ipv6 in 2020... ipv6 is not the future, its actually now.

You can enable ipv6 on Docker on Linux...

Why not mac?

mdavids · 2020-03-22T19:51:50Z

According to Google, IPv6 global usage has reached 25%

That was 2 years ago. It's now little over 31%. But some countries are close to, or passed 50%.

SiirRandall · 2023-02-13T13:55:04Z

I agree needing to have IPv6 for macOS is a needed for me here.

xsoheilalizadeh · 2023-04-18T10:01:46Z

It would be great if we have some comments from team members, what are the challenges to have IPv6 support? Is there any blocking?

cellulosa · 2023-04-24T20:58:58Z

Any updates?

[Docker for Mac doesn't support IPv6](docker/for-mac#1432), so this stops the probes trying and failing. Specifically, the HTTP probe for meet.google.com was failing. Why wasn't that falling back to IPv4 when the others were,? Dunno. But here we are.

akimrx · 2023-09-19T20:42:23Z

up, when?

SRv6d · 2023-09-20T18:50:21Z

For anyone looking for a more modern docker desktop experience with IPv6 support, OrbStack has worked great for me.

spence · 2023-10-03T19:27:54Z

For anyone looking for a more modern docker desktop experience with IPv6 support, OrbStack has worked great for me.

+1000 to this. Faster. Can't tell a difference.

Enable ipv6 in settings:

VectorZhao · 2023-11-06T14:47:06Z

Any updates?

PhilETaylor · 2023-11-06T14:50:31Z

I think everyone here has moved to Orbstack.dev which provides (amongst other things) ipv6 out of the box - built by a single person, with impressive features and releases, performance and speed improvements.

I literally dont know a single developer still using Docker Desktop for Mac.

Even if Docker Desktop for Mac added ipv6 support today, I know I'll not be returning to use it. Unsubscribing this thread now also.

maxpain · 2024-03-06T13:06:08Z

any updates?

mohit-zangoh · 2024-04-24T12:50:37Z

Still no updates? 🙂

bobrik · 2024-04-24T15:28:38Z

Please do not post "any updates?", it's not helping.

No0ne · 2024-09-25T15:28:11Z

Solved it by adding this at the beginning of docker-compose.yml:

networks:
  default:
    enable_ipv6: true

djs55 · 2024-09-26T09:33:39Z

We've been adding IPv6 support over the last several releases of Docker Desktop. The next release will have even better support. If you'd like to try a development build:

Intel: https://desktop-stage.docker.com/mac/main/amd64/168696/Docker.dmg
Apple Silicon: https://desktop-stage.docker.com/mac/main/arm64/168696/Docker.dmg

The new Settings / Resources / Network screen has new options:

Dual stack v4/v6 is default, but you can switch to v4-only (if you have problems with partially-working v6 in your environment) or v6-only (it's the future)

Note by default (to avoid breaking changes to containers) in dual stack v4/v6 environments, docker networks don't have v6 addresses. To fix that, do what @No0ne has suggested above in compose, or use docker network create --ipv6. See the IPv6 documentation

ekxs0109 · 2024-11-12T02:39:19Z

We've been adding IPv6 support over the last several releases of Docker Desktop. The next release will have even better support. If you'd like to try a development build:

Intel: https://desktop-stage.docker.com/mac/main/amd64/168696/Docker.dmg

Apple Silicon: https://desktop-stage.docker.com/mac/main/arm64/168696/Docker.dmg

The new Settings / Resources / Network screen has new options:

Dual stack v4/v6 is default, but you can switch to v4-only (if you have problems with partially-working v6 in your environment) or v6-only (it's the future)

Note by default (to avoid breaking changes to containers) in dual stack v4/v6 environments, docker networks don't have v6 addresses. To fix that, do what @No0ne has suggested above in compose, or use docker network create --ipv6. See the IPv6 documentation

What is the schedule for the official release？

nickatduo · 2025-01-08T23:41:58Z

We've been adding IPv6 support over the last several releases of Docker Desktop. The next release will have even better support. If you'd like to try a development build:

Intel: https://desktop-stage.docker.com/mac/main/amd64/168696/Docker.dmg

Apple Silicon: https://desktop-stage.docker.com/mac/main/arm64/168696/Docker.dmg

The new Settings / Resources / Network screen has new options:

Dual stack v4/v6 is default, but you can switch to v4-only (if you have problems with partially-working v6 in your environment) or v6-only (it's the future)

Note by default (to avoid breaking changes to containers) in dual stack v4/v6 environments, docker networks don't have v6 addresses. To fix that, do what @No0ne has suggested above in compose, or use docker network create --ipv6. See the IPv6 documentation

Hi @djs55 these links are no longer available, returning at 403, can we get new artefacts that are?

jeremy-preseem · 2025-01-17T19:57:02Z

I second the question to @djs55 — I could really use a release, even if experimental, with IPv6 support on MacOS.

nickatduo · 2025-01-20T01:24:38Z

I reached out to Docker support and IPv6 is included in the latest 4.37.2 release, but behind a feature flag.

Add the following to ~/Library/Group\ Containers/group.com.docker/features-overrides.json

{
  "IPv6": {
    "enabled": true,
    "label": "",
    "name": ""
  }
}

And then restart Docker completely, not just the engine.

IPv6 will then be available.

mridang · 2025-01-21T04:18:28Z

I reached out to Docker support and IPv6 is included in the latest 4.37.2 release, but behind a feature flag.

Add the following to ~/Library/Group\ Containers/group.com.docker/features-overrides.json

{
"IPv6": {
"enabled": true,
"label": "",
"name": ""
}
}
And then restart Docker completely, not just the engine.

IPv6 will then be available.

I can confirm that this worked. docker run -it --rm --privileged --pid=host justincormack/nsenter1 -- "ping6 2001:4860:4860::8888". I just need to figure out how to tweak the K8 CNI now.

rjpcasalino · 2025-01-26T20:42:43Z

Thanks, & IPv6 in Docker by default! Let's put IPv4 to bed, people!

ssolders · 2025-02-06T12:18:21Z

Adding solution for our use case in case someone runs into the same issue.
We have our micro-services running in docker, proxied via nginx (also running in docker), everything setup with a docker-compose.yml

Docker version: 27.5.1
Docker desktop version: 4.38 (also verified with 4.37)

When using it with mac all requests took minimum 5s until IPv6 failed and used fallback to IPv4.
Verified this using cURL against a simple health-check endpoint in our application:

time curl http://mydomain.local/api/health -> would resolve in 5s+
time curl -v6 http://mydomain.local/api/health -> would resolve in 5s+
time curl -v4 http://mydomain.local/api/health -> would resolve in ~10ms

Managed to get it to work by

Updating docker-compose.yml

networks:
  default:
    enable_ipv6: true

nginx.conf

server {
    listen      80; 
    listen [::]:80; # added this to also listen to IPv6
    server_name mydomain.local;
    resolver    127.0.0.11;

local host file

# ::1 to listen to IPv6
::1 mydomain.local
127.0.0.1 mydomain.local

joshhalley · 2025-02-11T18:04:10Z

I applied the config shared on version 4.37.2 - which initially worked great, menu exposed itself with the V6 options, and I could run v6 containers.

After upgrading to Sequoia (15.3) seems the new image broke the v6 fix, docker desktop won't even launch anymore. Anybody else facing this issue?

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djs55 mentioned this issue May 8, 2017

Network timeout when top two DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf are IPv6 addresses #9

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dcs3spp mentioned this issue Nov 15, 2018

Anyone managed to disable IPv6 from Nginx -> tusd ? tus/tusd#218

Closed

dimaryaz added a commit to quiltdata/quilt that referenced this issue Jan 3, 2020

Only use IPv4 nameservers on Mac

3976023

Workaround for a Docker bug: docker/for-mac#1432

dimaryaz mentioned this issue Jan 3, 2020

Only use IPv4 nameservers on Mac quiltdata/quilt#1482

Merged

dimaryaz added a commit to quiltdata/quilt that referenced this issue Jan 3, 2020

Only use IPv4 nameservers on Mac (#1482)

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Workaround for a Docker bug: docker/for-mac#1432

gerickson mentioned this issue Apr 8, 2020

Missing IPv6 Support on Docker for macOS Blocks CHIP Internet Layer Abstraction Testing and, Eventually, CHIP Protocol Testing project-chip/connectedhomeip#300

Closed

HLFH mentioned this issue Apr 13, 2020

Check TLS certificates with IPv6 addresses aeris/cryptcheck#52

Open

cellulosa mentioned this issue Apr 15, 2023

How to use Ipv6 to reverse proxy NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager#861

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chousheng mentioned this issue May 5, 2023

Fix GraphQL proxy in dev environments without IPv6 redwoodjs/redwood#8233

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kbakba mentioned this issue Mar 6, 2024

IPv6 support in Rancher Desktop rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop#2062

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Switch macOS to test against local server dotnet/SqlClient#2750

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jamilbk mentioned this issue Jan 18, 2025

Allocation may go into unusable state if disconnected during ICE firezone/firezone#7763

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mridang mentioned this issue Jan 21, 2025

Enable IPv6 support on the K8 cluster mridang/infrastructure-homelab#28

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mridang mentioned this issue Jan 24, 2025

Enable support for IPv6 for Kubernetes docker/roadmap#778

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Docker for mac doesn't work on IPv6 network #1432

Docker for mac doesn't work on IPv6 network #1432

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bobrik commented Mar 14, 2017

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