https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14977
--- Comment #36 from Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> 2011-11-23 08:16:42 UTC --- I also confirm the low priority here. Most wiki websites, including those only for Intranet use, will use a domain name, and not refer to the server using an IP address, should it be IPv4 or IPv6. So this is a non issue for the creation of URLs. All large web sites anyway won't want to be refered to by IP address but only by domain name, to help balance the load into multiple servers or front proxies, with the help of the DNS system. This is also needed in case of change of web hosting providers, or if there are alternate providers, or if for some reason a server must be stopped or fails and the trafic redirected to some other server: IP addresses are not intended to be stable across time (the myth of "static IP address" has lived, even in absence of NAT routing. Everyone uses a domain name because it is really a cheap solution with lots of benefits. It is only on issue if there are limitations in the webserver software itself (but IPv6 support in Apache, or even IIS, is present since long), or in some server log analysis tools, or with some proxy softwares (no longer an issue for proxies used by the Wikimedia Foundation). We should really not recommand the installation of MediaWiki on servers without a domain name, or at least a hostname on a private LAN (and on private LANs, IPv4 still works without limitations; IPv6 is mostly for the Internet). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
