On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > ----- 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?
It's not really a 6to4 NAT per se - it's a 6to4 application level proxy. The question is, what does Squid hand off to Apache via a IPv4 back end connection if the front end connection is IPv6. Which, frankly, I have no idea (and am off investigating...). -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
