6to4 prefix announcements?

stuart.prevost@bt.com stuart.prevost@bt.com
Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:24:37 -0000


6to4.ipv6.bt.com is operational and I am announcing 2002::/16

If you are having trouble using this then please let me know.
Regards,
Stuart

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pekka Savola [mailto:pekkas@netcore.fi]
> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 11:54 AM
> To: 6bone
> Subject: Re: 6to4 prefix announcements? 
> 
>
> I'm rather rather depressed at the fact that within for the traffic
> between two sites within EU, the chosen relay router is in the U.S.
> 
> Aren't the others (e.g. 6to4.ipv6.bt.com or 
> 6to4.ipv6.fh-regensburg.de,
> from http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/6to4/)  announcing these at 
> all or have
> they been restricted by policy to a smaller domain?
> 
> [ I've yet to see a 6bone looking glass to see how BGP 
> announcements look
> like somewhere else too ]
> 
> This makes the whole 6to4 routing act bad.
> 
> > >Or is there reasons why this is not done?
> >
> > 	do you want to see 2^32 routes announced to the 6bone?
> 
> Definitely not, but I was thinking of announing them in 
> aggregates always
> bigger than traditional B-class..  With about 2^8 or 2^10 you 
> could get
> rather good connectivity already -- traffic would probably 
> almost always
> be restricted to the same continent, or a part of the continent.
> 
> This would in part transfer some routing table expansion 
> problems of IPv4
> to IPv6, which is probably the reason it's deprecated.
> 
> -- 
> Pekka Savola                  "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
> Netcore Oy                    not those you stumble over and fall"
> Systems. Networks. Security.   -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords
>