How plentiful are anycast 6to4 Relay Routers?

[Ross Finlayson]

I'm connected to the 6Bone using "6to4", and have my default IPv6 router 
set to "2002:c058:6301::", which, I had read, is the anycast address for a 
6to4 Relay Router.  (This corresponds to IPv4 address "192.88.99.1".)

When I traceroute this address, I find that it's located over in Europe 
somewhere:

%traceroute 192.88.99.1
traceroute to 192.88.99.1 (192.88.99.1), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
  1  dsl-router (66.80.0.1)  1.859 ms  1.603 ms  1.547 ms
  2  sdsl-64-139-6-1.dsl.sca.megapath.net (64.139.6.1)  8.747 ms  11.575 
ms  7.382 ms
  3  fe4-0.border1.sca.megapath.net (66.80.60.130)  9.789 ms  8.817 
ms  10.310 ms
  4  csr11.sntc08.exodus.net (66.35.210.201)  9.557 ms  11.199 ms  9.943 ms
  5  dcr01-g3-0.sntc08.exodus.net (66.35.194.81)  9.316 ms  10.019 ms  9.114 ms
  6  bbr02-g2-0.sntc08.exodus.net (66.35.194.2)  10.129 ms  10.438 ms  9.672 ms
  7  bbr01-p8-0.sntc04.exodus.net (206.79.9.186)  8.672 ms  8.260 ms  7.980 ms
  8  bbr01-p1-0.ftwo01.exodus.net (209.185.9.110)  43.338 ms  42.450 
ms  42.018 ms
  9  bbr02-p3-0.ekgv01.exodus.net (206.79.9.54)  73.712 ms  72.601 
ms  72.125 ms
10  bbr01-p2-0.okbr01.exodus.net (206.79.9.129)  67.923 ms  66.695 
ms  66.467 ms
11  bbr01-p2-0.whkn01.exodus.net (206.79.9.134)  91.080 ms  91.069 
ms  89.296 ms
12  bbr01-p1-3.jrcy01.exodus.net (209.1.169.54)  91.380 ms  90.283 
ms  90.335 ms
13  ibr03-g6-1.jrcy01.exodus.net (216.32.223.134)  91.212 ms  90.065 
ms  89.570 ms
14  usnyk404-tc-p8-0.ebone.net (195.158.229.129)  91.669 ms  106.875 
ms  92.561 ms
15  gblon524-tc-p2-0.ebone.net (213.174.70.57)  168.409 ms  167.214 
ms  166.578 ms
16  frpar309-tc-p9-0.ebone.net (213.174.71.66)  178.830 ms  177.729 
ms  177.271 ms
17  frpar308-tc-p4-0.ebone.net (213.174.70.141)  178.256 ms  177.279 
ms  188.050 ms
18  behoe108-ta-p1-0.ebone.net (195.158.225.98)  189.254 ms  189.281 
ms  189.200 ms
19  behoe112-ec-f0-0.ebone.net (195.158.225.251)  185.323 ms *  184.061 ms

"traceroute6" also give results consistent with this:

%traceroute6 2002:c058:6301::
traceroute6 to 2002:c058:6301:: (2002:c058:6301::) from 2002:4250:2::1, 30 
hops max, 12 byte packets
  1  2002:c058:6301::  187.625 ms  186.123 ms  184.937 ms

Not a great situation.  Is there really noone 'closer' advertising a route 
to this anycast address?

Should I not be using "2002:c058:6301::" as my default IPv6 router after all?

	Ross.