IPv6 Support

[Sam Pearson]

Hi,

I just thought that I'd follow this up briefly to say that we're
successfully working around this for the time being using Nginx as a
reverse proxy. I'd be happy to share more details if anyone was interested.

Regards,
Sam


On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 11:33, Sam Pearson <sam at mysociety.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We're working on a migration into a new infrastructure which uses IPv6
> exclusively internally, so our back-end application servers do not
> have IPv4 addresses other than a loopback address. Although we access
> our indexes directly from the filesystem we use replication to
> maintain real-time standby copies and to allow us to take consistent
> backups from the replicated copies.
>
> We're running on Debian Bullseye using the packages from the main
> Debian repositories, as of now version 1.4.18-3. I see the comments on
> https://trac.xapian.org/ticket/374 suggest that IPv6 support for the
> network features may be coming in 1.5 but isn't currently planned for
> 1.4.x due to concerns over backwards compatibility - unless perhaps
> there's some demand :)
>
> I appreciate that there isn't a huge demand for this feature, but I'd
> appreciate an idea of how long it might be before this may be
> available in a released version so that we can make a decision
> internally here on how to work around this in the meantime. This might
> include building some packages of our own that include the relevant
> changes, so could potentially be useful to the project in terms of
> testing.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
>
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Sam Pearson
Site Reliability Engineer
mySociety / SocietyWorks Ltd