[Labs-l] Obtaining a public IP address

Wed Aug 1 21:45:28 UTC 2012

On 01/08/12 23:23, Harry Burt wrote:
> Hey all.
> 
> You'll have to forgive me if this has come up before, but what is the
> process for obtaining a public IP address for one's instance? I'm
> afraid I have literally no expertise in this area whatsoever, so I
> have no idea what's involved, and hence I thought it might be a good
> idea to piece together what I've been told so far and lump it all into
> this thread, rather than wonder on in blind ignorance:
> 
> * I would like to make my web instance (which hosts a test wiki)
> publicly accessible
> * To achieve this, I need to get a public IP address routed to it
> * Wikimedia Labs has only a small number of IP addresses under its control
> * Therefore it may not be possible to have my wiki publicly accessible
> 
> Is this a correct state of affairs? Is there any way of resoling this
> issue? (A few people have suggested things already, but I'm afraid I
> can't recall any of them.)
> 
> Many thanks,
> Harry

You ask a wmflabs operator and he assigns one more public ip to your
project, which then a netadmin can give to an instance.