Preliminary, experimental IPv6 support has been added to Wikipedia. The wildcard A record now has an AAAA entry for our IPv6 proxy host. This will probably be tested for the next few days, and may be removed if it proves unworkable. However, until then, IPv6-enabled users can access Wikipedia (only - not any other projects, yet) via IPv6 just as easily as IPv4.
Please let me know about any issues, problems or other comments during the test period.
Kate.
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:18:18 +0100, Kate Turner kate.turner@gmail.com wrote:
Preliminary, experimental IPv6 support has been added to Wikipedia.
If anyone's interested, traffic graphs for the site are available at http://tunnelbroker.net/mrtg/tserv2.fmt.ipv6.he.net/tserv2.fmt.ipv6.he.net_t...
Kate.
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:18:18 +0100, Kate Turner kate.turner@gmail.com wrote:
Preliminary, experimental IPv6 support has been added to Wikipedia.
I've now removed the AAAA DNS record (although the address is still usable). Problems with the tunnel connectivity over the last few hours and a dependence on only two of our hosts which are serving the v6 requests means that it's not yet possible to provide an acceptable level of service to IPv6 users.
However, I think this has shown that providing IPv6 service for WMF projects is quite feasible, and is something I'll be looking at in future, if a way can be found to provide more reliable service.
Kate.
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