How plentiful are anycast 6to4 Relay Routers?

Pekka Savola pekkas@netcore.fi
Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:19:16 +0200 (EET)


On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, 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

Btw: that particular relay router seems to disobey the addrarch draft that 
anycast address MUST NOT be used as a source address.

FWIW, we're providing anycast relay to the world, there's another in
Switzerland.  I recall Zama used to provide some service too.

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