The MediaWiki deployments serving WMF-hosted wikis may have a strict limit on bad logins, per source IP address. The potential impact of this is a misbehaving bot blocking login for other bots running on CloudVPS/Toolforge.
We need to figure out how to make this mechanism aware of the cloud public IPv4 ranges.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T272395 Cloud: reduce NAT exceptions from cloud to production | |||
| Stalled | None | T209011 Change routing to ensure that traffic originating from Cloud VPS is seen as non-private IPs by Wikimedia wikis | |||
| Open | None | T273725 make sure mediawiki limits on bad logins account for cloud public IPv4 ranges |