Peter Gervai wrote: > Ehlo, > > I see that this topic has been popped up from time to time since 2004, > and that most of the misc servers have been already IPv6 enabled. I > have checked around whether google have any info on that, and found a > few (really few) mail on that, from the original 2004 test to a > comment from 2008 that squid and mediawiki is the problem, apart from > some smaller issues. (As a sidenote, google don't seem to find > anything on site:lists.wikimedia.org about "ipv6", interesting.)
List archives are not searchable by google. > Now, squid fully supports IPv6 as of now (since 3.1), so I guess > that's check. (I didn't try it, though, but others seem to have.) > > MediaWiki, well, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/IPv6_support didn't > mention any outstanding problem and the linked bug is closed, so as > far as I'm observing (without actually testing it) it looks okay. > > The database structure may require some tuning as far as I see. Right? I don't think so. MediaWiki code may need some assumptions about it, though. > Apache handle it since eternity, php does I guess. > > Are there any further, non v6 compatible components in running a > wikipedia? If not, is there any outstanding proble which would make it > impossible to fire up a test interface on ipv6? > > I'd say to use a separate host, like en.ipv6.wikipedia.org, and not to > worry about the cache efficiency because I doubt that the ipv6 level > traffic would really measure up to the ipv4 one. At least it could be > properly measured, and decision should base on facts how to go on. > > Maybe there's a test host already on, but I wasn't able to find it, so > I guess nobody else can. ;-) I think this comment in the config summarises it: "no IPv6 support - 20051207" > Is there any further problem in this topic require solutions, or it > just didn't occur to anyone lately? > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
