[Labs-l] memcached is broken

[John Du Hart]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Platonides <platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
>
> _______________________________________________
> Labs-l mailing list
> Labs-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l

But then what's the point of having memcache anyway? You could do
without the networking overhead and just use APC shared memory.

-- 
John