----- Original Message ----- > From: "River Tarnell" <r.tarn...@ieee.org>
> 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. Oh, of course. > 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. It might; how would a 6to4NAT affect blocking? > 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. I mused on NANOG yesterday as to what was going to happen when network techs started realizing they couldn't carry around a bunch of IPs in their heads anymore... > >> (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. His phrasing seemed a bit.. insufficiently clear, to me. That was me, attempting to clarify. > >> 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? Sure. The S/N is still lower than the Hats would prefer, but that's the nature of an expanding universe. Cheers, - jra _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
