# lennylxx/ipv6-hosts

Fork of https://code.google.com/archive/p/ipv6-hosts/, focusing on automation

Repository: https://github.com/lennylxx/ipv6-hosts
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ipv6-hosts
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: hosts, ipv6, ggc, reverse-engineering, google
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-04-22T15:35:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4432, "days_push": 1594, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4492, forks 1010 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:51.348484+00:00)

## What it is
A curated hosts file mapping Google, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia and other domains to IPv6 addresses, with Python scripts to automate updating it via DNS lookups. It is a fork of the original Google Code ipv6-hosts project focused on automation.

## Use cases
- speed up access to Google and YouTube over IPv6 in mainland China
- generate an up-to-date IPv6 hosts file automatically
- resolve domains to AAAA records and write them into hosts
- bypass DNS pollution for blocked websites
- merge hosts file snippets into one file

## When to choose
- you have native IPv6 connectivity and want faster or unfiltered access to Google services
- you want a maintained hosts list with automation scripts instead of manual editing

## When to avoid
- you have no IPv6 connectivity
- you need a VPN or full proxy solution rather than per-domain IP mapping
- you need guaranteed up-to-date IPs, since the last release was in 2022

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: maintenance
- function: networking, developer-tools, workflow-automation
- domain: networking, censorship-circumvention, privacy
- platform: cross-platform, python, cli
- tags: hosts-file, ipv6, google-services, dns, china-access

## Member repositories
- lennylxx/ipv6-hosts (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:51.348484+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:20:28.251185+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/lennylxx/ipv6-hosts (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:51.348484+00:00, sha da9abcdfd235)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.