----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Starling" <[email protected]>

> It's not necessary for the main Squid cluster to support IPv6 in order
> to serve the main website via IPv6.
> 
> The amount of IPv6 traffic will presumably be very small in the short
> term. We can just set up a single proxy server in each location (Tampa
> and Amsterdam), and point all of the relevant AAAA records to it. All
> the proxy has to do is add an X-Forwarded-For header, and then forward
> the request on to the relevant IPv4 virtual IP. The request will then
> be routed by LVS to a frontend squid.

That's so obvious I'm embarassed I didn't think of it.

Given how big we are, though "very" small may be most websites "medium traffic 
day".  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra

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