Leslie Carr <lc...@wikimedia.org> schrieb:
>>
>> I wish that http://208.80.154.225/wiki/Bosh_Sahifa and
>> https://208.80.154.225/wiki/Bosh_Sahifa would work, too, but the
>> foundation apparently can't or chooses not to afford separate IP
>> addresses for each language's Wikipedia.
>
>As one of the network folks, I will answer this. We do not have
>enough public IP(v4)s for an address for each language in each
>project, and unless someone gives us a major donation of IPv4
>addresses (anyone have a spare /20 laying around?), I don't think we
>will be able to make this happen as we are frugal with our existing
>IPs and the allocating authorities (RIPE and ARIN) are being quite
>strict with their new IPv4 allocations.
>
>If you'd like to read more about IP allocation policies, here's a few
>links
>https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#four3
>https://www.arin.net/resources/request/ipv4_depletion.html
>https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-553 (see section 5.6)
>
Just an idea, which is not very beautiful: What about a router forwarding ports
to the correct machine by using iptables? Would that also work in connection
with search engines?
Cheers
Marco
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