Railway internal DNS returns IPv6 only for environments created before 16 October 2025

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:26.790Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:26.790Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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Environments created after 2025-10-16 resolve <service-name>.railway.internal to both internal IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Environments created before that date resolve to IPv6 addresses only.

That single difference explains a whole class of bug where a service connects perfectly in a newly created staging environment and fails in the long-lived production one, because the client library, runtime, or driver prefers IPv4 or supports only IPv4. Nothing about the application code differs between the two.

For a legacy environment the options are to make the client dual-stack aware, for example by setting Node's DNS result order, passing an address family option to a Postgres or Redis client, or explicitly dialing over IPv6, or to recreate the environment so it picks up the newer DNS behavior. Confirm which case you are in by running a DNS lookup from inside a deployed container rather than reasoning from the environment's age.

Source: https://docs.railway.com/networking/private-networking/how-it-works

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