Here is the Phab task for the floating IP request: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300750. Declining to grant a floating IP in this case is in line with how WMCS generally handles floating IPs in my experience, and the reasons given are valid.
AntiCompositeNumber (he/him) On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 1:04 PM Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com> wrote: > > VideoWiki is a project of WikiProjectMed aimed at disseminating wikipedia > content visually, rather than textually, by generating a video from the text > and images of a wiki page. It is currently deployed at > https://videowiki.wmcloud.org. (It is not fully operational yet.) > > We asked for a static IP address to access it from videowiki.org, but were > denied. So I have two questions: > > 1) Is there community support for granting this project a static IP to > facilitate this access? > > 2) If not, is there a recommended way to use dynamic dns, such as noip, to > cause videowiki.org to resolve as videowiki.wmcloud.org? I think most dyndns > clients assume the IP of the host is the target rather than a proxy, though I > suppose the proxy could be pinged and that address supplied periodically to > the dyndns service. > > Any help would be appreciated, > > Tim > > > _______________________________________________ > Cloud mailing list -- cloud@lists.wikimedia.org > List information: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud.lists.wikimedia.org/ _______________________________________________ Cloud mailing list -- cloud@lists.wikimedia.org List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud.lists.wikimedia.org/
