[Labs-l] memcached is broken

[Platonides]

On 20/02/12 12:04, Dan Achim wrote:
> I can take a look at it tonight, but are you sure this should be the
> case? Maybe listening on localhost was a design choice. Maybe security
> related or to make sure we keep things consistent.
> 
> Can someone confirm that this is ok to do? What is the
> expected behavior of the memcached servers?

A memcached server just provides a memcache instance to other servers
(you could then distribute the keys among them). So it should listen to
connections from other hosts.

Although if it's intalled on just one server for itself, it could be
desired to run it on localhost (as in marmontel, the host serving
blog.wikimedia.org).