[Labs-l] IPv6?

[Petr Bena]

Yes that's true, it's more or less something we could have, not
something we really need. But at some point it would make stuff easier
for some people, you probably wouldn't use public IPv6 to provide some
service to public, but rather for example to make it simple for owner
of virtual machine to directly ssh / scp into their instance, not
having to go through some tunnels and so on.

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Ryan Lane <rlane32 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> It's 2015, many years after IANA's IPv4 pool was exhausted. WE STILL
>> DON'T HAVE IPv6 ON LABS! Why?
>>
>> If we had it, every single instance could have it's own public address
>> and things like http://tools.wmflabs.org/ wouldn't say "Server not
>> found" if you were on IPv6 only box.
>>
>
> Even with IPv6, it doesn't make a ton of sense to give direct access to the
> nodes. You'd still have to support the case of IPv4, but then you'd add the
> complexity of having things work two different ways, which makes
> troubleshooting harder. Making things go through proxies is a good approach
> as a whole.
>
> That said, it would be nice to eventually have IPv6 support in Labs for
> testing IPv6 for MediaWiki.
>
> - Ryan
>
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