On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "George Herbert" <[email protected]>
>
>> I just checked and determined that there appear to be no AAAA records
>> yet for the WMF servers.
>>
>> 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?  I think the answer is
> yes.
>
>> The importance of this is going to be high in the Asia-Pacific region
>> within a few months:
>> http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/rir.jpg
>>
>> (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.
>
>> In each region, ISPs then will start running out of IPv4 to hand out
>> within a month to three months of the registry exhaustion.
>>
>> We have a few months, but by the end of 2012, any major site needs to
>> be serving IPv6.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, is anyone from the Foundation on the NANOG mailing
>> lists?
>
> Oh yeah; that's what triggered this.  :-)
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra

Yes, I know YOU are Jay, and presumably I count as I was on NANOG in
1995, but I was asking about WMF staff / ops department.


-- 
-george william herbert
[email protected]

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