[Labs-l] Public addresses by default

208.97.132.231 damian at damianzaremba.co.uk
Sun Sep 30 17:37:49 UTC 2012


On 30/09/2012 17:31, Niklas Laxström wrote:
> On 27 September 2012 18:19, Ryan Lane <rlane at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> That's the plan. We'll be adding IPv6 support fairly soon, and every
>> instance will have a public IPv6 address by default.
> What about existing instances which expect that general public can't
> access the services?
>    -Niklas
>
Security groups will still restrict traffic, so if you don't enable 
access to something it shouldn't have access to it.

Even now if you have a public IP, it doesn't necessarily mean you can 
access ports publicly.

Damian



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