I was wondering, Would it not be a beautiful thing to not only have our IPv4 adresses but also IPv6 adresses. Would it not be grand if we moved towards the future ? People is Asia are adopting IPv6 and it would be cool if they do not have to go through hoops to get to our IPv4 network.
What is needed to get Wikimedia IPv6 addresses as well ?
Thanks, GerardM
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On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:56:30AM +0200, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
I was wondering, Would it not be a beautiful thing to not only have our IPv4 adresses but also IPv6 adresses. Would it not be grand if we moved towards the future ? People is Asia are adopting IPv6 and it would be cool if they do not have to go through hoops to get to our IPv4 network.
What is needed to get Wikimedia IPv6 addresses as well ?
The software itself is perfectly able to work in IPv6, I did it while hosting the start of Walloon wikipedia on my own machine (you can still see the IPv6 anonymous IP addresses, eg on http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesWikipediaWA.htm, at the "recently absent wikipedians" table there is "::1" and "3ffe:b80:19ff:1:250:4ff:fe44:f063" There is a bug in the handling of "::1", the contributions link doesn't work because of the leading ":", if you manually edit the url to add [ and ] around the IP, then it works; but there shouldn't be any real traffic comming from "::1" (aka, localhost) on real server anyway)
So, the only thing needed is an IPv6 connectivity and then adding entries to the DNS.
The stats scripts should maybe also be modified to recognize an IPv6 anonymous IP and list it at the right place.
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