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Subject:    Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Re: [Wikimedia-l] No access to the Uzbek Wikipedia in Uzbekistan
From:       bawolff <bawolff+wn () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-12-29 8:13:19
Message-ID: CA+oo+DU_NDs=KJW5ZyPMj3E0DMi7g6VB9fVGS140sqWYY95jsQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Marco Fleckinger
<marco.fleckinger@wikipedia.at> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Do we have one extra machine left. Then we could set up this as NAT-Router. This \
> will replace another machine if we do not have one extra IP left. The original \
> ports need to be forwarded to that then. 
> Cheers
> 
> Marco
> 
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Von: Leslie Carr <lcarr@wikimedia.org>
> Gesendet: Fri Dec 28 00:03:33 MEZ 2012
> An: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] No access to the Uzbek Wikipedia in Uzbekistan
> 
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Marco Fleckinger
> <marco.fleckinger@wikipedia.at> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Leslie Carr <lcarr@wikimedia.org> schrieb:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Marco Fleckinger
> > > <marco.fleckinger@wikipedia.at> wrote:
> > 
> > > > Just an idea, which is not very beautiful: What about a router
> > > forwarding ports to the correct machine by using iptables? Would that
> > > also work in connection with search engines?
> > > 
> > > Are you suggesting we use different nonstandard ports for each
> > > different wiki/language combo that resides on the same IP ?
> > > 
> > Yes exactly!
> > 
> 
> I guess that is theoretically possible with a more intrusive load
> balancer in the middle. We need the HOST information from the http
> header to be added as we have our varnish caches serving multiple
> services, not one(or more) per language/project combo.  I'm pretty
> sure that lvs doesn't have this ability (which we use).  Some large
> commercial load balancers have the ability to rewrite some headers,
> but that would be a pretty intensive operation (think lots of cpu
> needed, since it needs to terminate SSL and then rewrite headers) and
> would probably be expensive.  If you have another way you think we can
> do this, I am all ears!
> 
> We may want to move this discussion to wikitech-l as all the technical
> discussions probably bore most of the people on wikimedia-l
> 
> Leslie
> 


Wikimedia is a pretty big player. Has anyone from the foundation with
some sort of fancy sounding title called up the ISP in question and
asked "wtf?". The original email on wikimedia-l made it sound like the
issue is unintentional.

-bawolff

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