On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Ashar Voultoiz <hashar+...@free.fr> wrote: > It is not a wanted feature for the WMF cluster which wants to redirect > some languages/projects pairs to different clusters. > > hi.wikipedia.org (Hindi), could be made to points to an Indian Cluster > ja.wikipedia.org (Japanese) ... to an Asian cluster. > > So we actually want different domains :b > That's not how we load balance stuff right now. All the *.wikipedia.org and *.wikiwhatever.org domains are CNAMEs all pointing to text.wikimedia.org , which in turn is a CNAME for either text.pmtpa.wikimedia.org or text.esams.wikimedia.org , depending on your geographical location (or, to be more precise, the location of the DNS server you're using).
In other words, we don't load balance based on a wiki's language, but on the user's location. Someone visiting de.wikipedia.org while in Japan hits the Tampa cluster, and someone visiting ja.wikipedia.org while in France hits the Amsterdam cluster. In fact, when British and American users view en.wikipedia.org, they view the same wiki through different clusters. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
