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.

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On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 1:04 PM Tim Moody <tim@timmoody.com> wrote:
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> 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.)
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> We asked for a static IP address to access it from videowiki.org, but were denied. So I have two questions:
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> 1) Is there community support for granting this project a static IP to facilitate this access?
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> 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.
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> Any help would be appreciated,
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> Tim
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