In article <[email protected]>,
Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>> From: "George Herbert" <[email protected]>
>> I have to admit to having been negligent in examining the IPv6
>> readiness of the Mediawiki software. Is it generally working and
>> ready to go on IPv6?
>Is Apache? That's the base question, is it not?
It doesn't matter if Apache supports IPv6, since the Internet-facing
HTTP servers for wikis are reverse proxies, either Squid or Varnish.
I believe the version of Squid that WMF is using doesn't support IPv6.
As long as the proxy supports IPv6, it can continue to talk to Apache
via IPv4; since WMF's internal network uses RFC1918 addresses, it won't
be affected by IPv4 exhaustion.
Apache does support IPv6, though; some other content which is served
using Apache, like lists.wm.o, is available over IPv6.
MediaWiki itself supports IPv6 fine, including for blocking. This was
implemented a while ago. Training admins to handle IPv6 IPs could be
interesting.
>> (APNIC runs out of IPv4 space to give to providers somewhere around
>> August, statistically; RIPE in Feb or March 2012, ARIN in July 2012).
>ARIN issued the last 5 available /8s to RIRs *today*; we've been talking
>about it all day on NANOG.
Not exactly. IANA issued the last 5 /8s to RIRs, of which ARIN is one,
today. But George is talking about RIR exhaustion, which is still some
months away.
>> Out of curiosity, is anyone from the Foundation on the NANOG mailing
>> lists?
>Oh yeah; that's what triggered this. :-)
Does any useful discussion still take place on that list?
- river.
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