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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