How plentiful are anycast 6to4 Relay Routers?

[Jesper Skriver]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:04:15AM +0100, Andreas 'randy' Weinberger wrote:
> 
> hello ross,
> 
> > 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".)
> 
> ...
> 
> > %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
> 
> why dont you use a "real" tunnelbroker instead of the anycast?
> 
> imho the anycast is good for the first tests but for more i prefere tunnels
> with either 3ffe or 2001 space :)

Why ?

the anycast trick is good, because the client doesn't need to
configure anything special when moving around, all we need is
that more announce the anycast address ...

/Jesper

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