[Labs-l] Potential new public DNS/proxy naming policies

[Bryan Davis]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Nils <nils-k at teleos-web.de> wrote:
>
>
> At 09.03.2016, 16:46 Andrew Bogott wrote:
>>
>> (...)
>> a) there will no longer be any foo.wmflabs.org records, only
>> foo.<project>.wmflabs.org records.
>> b) Existing records using the foo.wmflabs.org scheme will have to be
>> migrated to a project-specific domain, or remain in a weird in-between state
>> where only admins can see and edit them.
>> c) If there are any existing subdomains that are shared between projects,
>> they'll need to be untangled.
>>
>>
>> So, tell me:  How much will this change hurt you, and how much will it
>> hurt your users?  Please be as detailed as possible so that I have what I
>> need to come up with compromise solutions.
>> (...)
>
> Meh, how would this affect mediawiki-vagrant? Vagrant with the centralauth
> role uses <instancename>.wmflabs.org, so do I have to recreate my isntance?
> Since I installed a lot there, I don't want to have to recreate that. Or is
> there a possbility to rename a instance, or solve this issue with another
> method?

No change expected at all for MediaWiki-Vagrant managed wikis in Labs.
The changes would be for projects that are using static IPs. The
shared proxy setup used by tools and most projects in Labs would not
change at all.

Bryan
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