[6bone] trace to 192.88.99.1; .au v6 connectivity
Pim van Pelt
pim@ipng.nl
Tue, 7 Jan 2003 15:22:42 +0100
Hoi Dan,
| Unless I am under the wrong impression completely, it is my understanding
| that 192.88.99.1 is the special 'anycast' address used for finding the
| nearest 2002:: 6to4 routing gateway.
Correct.
| I've been doing some traces from various hosts here in .au and they all
| either end up at a host in Swizerland or a host in Finland. The thing is,
| I'm rather skeptical of the fact that these servers are the 'nearest' to
| Australia, BGP-speaking or otherwise.
There's not that many of these anycast advertisers around these days.
I actually only have two of them in my tables:
* 192.88.99.0/24 O 150 0 >213.136.31.6
B 170 100 >217.71.99.37 13237 8379 I
B 170 100 2066 >213.136.31.2 6461 8379 I
B 170 100 2066 >213.136.31.2 6461 8379 I
B 170 100 0 >212.72.45.29 3356 2603 1741 I
The first one is my own relay (which I do not yet advertise to BGP, only in
OSPF for my own customers), the next three are Cybernet AG (Germany) and
the last one is the Funet REN (Finland).
A traceroute from my site (not regarding OSPF) would end up in Germany.
A traceroute from another site I maintain (AS8954) ends up in Finland.
| Any assistance you good folks could lend me in relation to this issue would
| be a great help. Is 6to4 connectivity even desired these days?
I don't know. I would be willing to advertise my own implementation of the
anycast at the AMS-IX, but I'm not sure that there's much use of 6to4 relaying
these days. Perhaps this will pick up when Windows .NET starts massively
making use of 6to4.
Are there any other people here that would like to have my advertising the
prefix at AMS-IX ?
regards,
Pim
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