On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Marco Fleckinger <marco.fleckin...@wikipedia.at> wrote: > > > > Do we have one extra machine left. Then we could set up this as NAT-Router. > This will replace another machine if we do not have one extra IP left. The > original ports need to be forwarded to that then. > > Cheers > > Marco > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Von: Leslie Carr <lc...@wikimedia.org> > Gesendet: Fri Dec 28 00:03:33 MEZ 2012 > An: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> > Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] No access to the Uzbek Wikipedia in Uzbekistan > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Marco Fleckinger > <marco.fleckin...@wikipedia.at> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> Leslie Carr <lc...@wikimedia.org> schrieb: >> >>>On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Marco Fleckinger >>><marco.fleckin...@wikipedia.at> wrote: >> >>>> Just an idea, which is not very beautiful: What about a router >>>forwarding ports to the correct machine by using iptables? Would that >>>also work in connection with search engines? >>> >>>Are you suggesting we use different nonstandard ports for each >>>different wiki/language combo that resides on the same IP ? >>> >> Yes exactly! >> > > I guess that is theoretically possible with a more intrusive load > balancer in the middle. We need the HOST information from the http > header to be added as we have our varnish caches serving multiple > services, not one(or more) per language/project combo. I'm pretty > sure that lvs doesn't have this ability (which we use). Some large > commercial load balancers have the ability to rewrite some headers, > but that would be a pretty intensive operation (think lots of cpu > needed, since it needs to terminate SSL and then rewrite headers) and > would probably be expensive. If you have another way you think we can > do this, I am all ears! > > We may want to move this discussion to wikitech-l as all the technical > discussions probably bore most of the people on wikimedia-l > > Leslie >
Wikimedia is a pretty big player. Has anyone from the foundation with some sort of fancy sounding title called up the ISP in question and asked "wtf?". The original email on wikimedia-l made it sound like the issue is unintentional. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
